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Which Chinese dialect region includes Hebei province?
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Lotus Pond Garden, Baoding, Hebei province, China.
Hebei province is linguistically and culturally part of the Northern Mandarin dialect area. This region is characterized by the northern variant of Mandarin, which is spoken to the north of the Qin MountainsāHuai River line and serves as the basis for the national language, putonghua.12