Southwest direction.

According to the Chinese map showing the locations of Cangzhou and Tianjin, Cangzhou is located in the southeast of Hebei Province and Tianjin is located in the northeast of Hebei Province, so Cangzhou is southwest of Tianjin.

Cangzhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province, is located in the Heilonggang Basin in the southeast of Hebei Province and the eastern part of the Hebei Plain. It is bordered by the Bohai Sea in the east, Tianjin and Langfang in the north, and Baoding and Baoding in the west and southwest. Hengshui is adjacent to Binzhou and Dezhou in Shandong Province across the Zhangweixin River to the south.