Hejian

Hejian (河 间 市chinese /河 间 市, pinyin Hejian Shì ), is a county-level city in Hebei Province in China. It belongs to the administrative territory of the prefecture-level city of Cangzhou. The end of 2004 the city had about 770,000 inhabitants over an area of 1,333 square km.

Administrative Divisions

The Hejian City is made up of seven large municipalities, twelve municipalities and Nationality community.

History

Hejian or " Ho kien Fu" was the seat of the Catholic mission of the Jesuits, which also included the French missionaries Séraphin Couvreur and Léon Wieger.