The Shitai Expressway ({{zh, 石太高速公路) links
Shijiazhuang, capital of
China's
Hebei
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province, to
Taiyuan in the west, capital of
Shanxi province.
Spanning a distance of over 150 kilometres, it passes through
Jiuguan,
Niangzi Pass,
Pingding,
Yangquan
Yangquan ( ) is a prefecture-level city in the east of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. Situated at the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau and the west side of the Taihang Mountains, known as "Rip ...
,
Shouyang
Shouyang County () is a county in the east-central part of Shanxi province, China. It is under the administration of Jinzhong
Jinzhong, formerly Yuci, is a prefecture-level city in east central Shanxi province of the People's Republic of Chi ...
and
Jinzhong
Jinzhong, formerly Yuci, is a prefecture-level city in east central Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east.
As of the 2020 census, its total population was 3,379,498 inhabitants whom 1,226,617 ...
before arriving at Taiyuan.
It is also known in Shanxi as the Taijiu Expressway (from Taiyuan to Jiuguan).
It links with the ring road expressway near Taiyuan, ultimately linking north to the
Dayun Expressway heading toward
Datong, and southwest toward the
Jiaofen Expressway and the
Dayun Expressway heading south toward
Yuncheng
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.
Expressways in China
Transport in Hebei
Transport in Shanxi