West Lake
West Lake, also known as Xihu and by other names, is a freshwater lake in Hangzhou, China. Situated to the west of Hangzhou's former walled city, the lake has a surface area of 6.39 km2, stretching 3.2 km from north to south and 2.8 km from east to west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Also known as: “Hsi Hu”, “Hsi-hu”, “Hsi-tzu Hu”, “Hsi-tzu Lake”, “Hsi-tzu-hu”, “Lake Hsi-tzu”, “Lake Si-hu”, “Lake Si-wu”, “Lake Tsien-ho”, “Lake Xizi”, “Qian’s Lake”, “Qianhu”, “Qiantang Lake”, “Si Hu”, “Si-hu”, “Si-wu”, “Sihu”, “the Lake”, “Tsien-hu”, “Tsien’s Lake”, “Western Lake”, “Westlake”, “Wulin Lakes”, “Xi Hu”, “Xihu”, “Xizi Hu”, “Xizi Lake”, and “Xizihu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zhejiang Provincial Museum and Wenlan Pavilion.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Museum
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The Zhejiang Provincial Museum, also known as Zhejiang Memorial Museum of Revolutionary History, is the provincial museum of Zhejiang, China, located in Hangzhou.
Wenlan Pavilion
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The Wenlan Pavilion, also known as the Imperial Wenlan Library, Imperial Library or Wenlan Ge, is a library and garden located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
Temple of the Qian Kings
The Temple of the Qian Kings, also known by its Chinese name as the Qianwang or Qian Wang Temple, is a Chinese temple in Hangzhou, China, honoring the Qian family who ruled as kings of Wuyue in the 10th-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longjing and Hangzhou.
Longjing
Village
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Longjing, literally "dragon well", is a name applied to a number of locations and products from the southwestern region of the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, China. Longjing is situated 5 km southwest of West Lake.
Hangzhou
Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang province. It is one of the most important tourist cities in China, famous for its natural beauty and historical and cultural heritage.
West Lake
- Categories: Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction and body of water
- Location: Zhejiang, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“West Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البحيرة الغربية (هانغتشو)”
- Arabic: “البحيرة الغربية”
- Asturian: “Llagu del Oeste”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərb gölü”
- Basque: “Xi lakua”
- Belarusian: “Возера Сіху”
- Belarusian: “Сіху”
- Catalan: “llac de l’Oest”
- Catalan: “Llac de l’Oest”
- Cebuano: “Xi Hu”
- Chinese: “Hâng-chiu Sai-ô͘”
- Chinese: “明聖湖”
- Chinese: “杭州西湖”
- Chinese: “杭州西湖文化景观”
- Chinese: “杭州西湖风景名胜区”
- Chinese: “武林水”
- Chinese: “西子湖”
- Chinese: “西湖”
- Chinese: “西湖传说”
- Chinese: “西湖公园”
- Chinese: “西湖风景名胜区”
- Chuvash: “Сиху”
- Croatian: “Zapadno jezero”
- Czech: “Západní jezero”
- Danish: “Vestsøen”
- Danish: “Xihu”
- Dutch: “Westelijke Meer”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Lago”
- Finnish: “Xihu”
- French: “L. Sy-hou”
- French: “lac de l’Ouest”
- French: “Lac de l’Ouest”
- French: “Lac Sy-hou”
- French: “lacs de Wulin”
- French: “Sy Hou”
- French: “Sy-hou”
- Georgian: “ხანჩჟოუს დასავლეთის ტბის კულტურული ლანდშაფტი”
- Georgian: “ხანჯოუს დასავლეთის ტბის კულტურული ლანდშაფტი”
- German: “Westsee”
- German: “Xi Hu”
- Hebrew: “האגם המערבי”
- Hindi: “वेस्ट झील”
- Hungarian: “Nyugati-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Barat”
- Irish: “Loch an Iarthair”
- Italian: “Lago dell’ovest”
- Italian: “Lago dell’Ovest”
- Japanese: “杭州西湖”
- Japanese: “西湖”
- Korean: “서호”
- Korean: “시 호”
- Korean: “시후”
- Korean: “항주서호”
- Literary Chinese: “武林水”
- Literary Chinese: “西湖”
- Lithuanian: “Sihu”
- Malay: “Tasik Barat”
- Malayalam: “പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ തടാകം, ചൈന”
- Maltese: “Lag tal-Punent, Hangzhou”
- Maltese: “Lag tal-Punent”
- Maltese: “Xi Hu”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hòng-ciŭ Să̤-hù”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hâng-chiu Sai-ô͘”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den vestre sjø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xihu”
- Norwegian: “Xihu”
- Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮੀ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “خی هو”
- Persian: “دریاچه غرب”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ غرب”
- Polish: “Jezioro Zachodnie”
- Polish: “Si-hu”
- Polish: “Xi Hu”
- Portuguese: “Lago do Oeste”
- Romanian: “Lacul de Vest”
- Russian: “Сиху”
- Sakizaya: “Si-hu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadno jezero”
- Slovak: “Si-chu”
- Slovenian: “Zahodno jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago del Oeste”
- Spanish: “Lagos de Wulin”
- Swedish: “Xihu”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு ஏரி”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบตะวันตก”
- Thai: “ภูมิทัศน์วัฒนธรรมทะเลสาบตะวันตกในหางโจว”
- Turkish: “Batı Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Сіху”
- Uzbek: “Sihu koʻli”
- Venetian: “lago de l’Ovest”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Hồ”
- Wu Chinese: “武林水”
- Wu Chinese: “西湖”
- Yue Chinese: “武林水”
- Yue Chinese: “西湖”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lingyin and Xihu.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Chengxin Hall, Wulin Academy of Arts and Gallery of the Wulin Academy of Arts.
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