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.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Also known as: “Den vestre sjø”, “Hsi Hu”, “Hsi-hu”, “Hsi-tzu Hu”, “Hsi-tzu Lake”, “Hsi-tzu-hu”, “L. Sy-hou”, “Lac Sy-hou”, “lacs de Wulin”, “Lag tal-Punent”, “Lago dell’ovest”, “Lagos de Wulin”, “Lake Hsi-tzu”, “Lake Si-hu”, “Lake Si-wu”, “Lake Tsien-ho”, “Lake Xizi”, “Qian’s Lake”, “Qianhu”, “Qiantang Lake”, “Si Hu”, “Si-wu”, “Sy Hou”, “Sy-hou”, “the Lake”, “Tsien-hu”, “Tsien’s Lake”, “Vestsøen”, “Western Lake”, “Westlake”, “Wulin Lakes”, “Xizi Hu”, “Xizi Lake”, “Xizihu”, “ხანჩჟოუს დასავლეთის ტბის კულტურული ლანდშაფტი”, “خی هو”, “دریاچهٔ غرب”, “시후”, “항주서호”, “明聖湖”, “杭州西湖”, “杭州西湖文化景观”, “杭州西湖风景名胜区”, “武林水”, “西子湖”, “西湖传说”, “西湖公园”, and “西湖风景名胜区”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Zhejiang Provincial Museum and Wenlan Pavilion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hubin and Lingyin.
West Lake
- Categories: Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction and body of water
- Location: Zhejiang, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.25069° or 30° 15′ 3″ north
Longitude
120.14442° or 120° 8′ 40″ east
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
8Q22742V+7Q
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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: “Сіху”
- Catalan: “llac de l’Oest”
- Catalan: “Llac de l’Oest”
- Cebuano: “Xi Hu”
- Chinese: “西湖”
- Chuvash: “Сиху”
- Croatian: “Zapadno jezero”
- Czech: “Západní jezero”
- Danish: “Xihu”
- Dutch: “Westelijke Meer”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Lago”
- Finnish: “Xihu”
- French: “lac de l’Ouest”
- French: “Lac de l’Ouest”
- Georgian: “ხანჯოუს დასავლეთის ტბის კულტურული ლანდშაფტი”
- German: “Westsee”
- Hebrew: “האגם המערבי”
- Hindi: “वेस्ट झील”
- Hungarian: “Nyugati-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Barat”
- Irish: “Loch an Iarthair”
- Italian: “Lago dell’Ovest”
- Japanese: “西湖”
- Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಸರೋವರ, ಹಾಂಗ್ಝೌ”
- Korean: “서호”
- Korean: “시 호”
- Literary Chinese: “西湖”
- Lithuanian: “Sihu”
- Malay: “Tasik Barat”
- Malayalam: “പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ തടാകം, ചൈന”
- Maltese: “Lag tal-Punent, Hangzhou”
- Manchu: “ᠰᡳ ᡥᡡ ᡨᡝᠩᡤᡳᠨ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hòng-ciŭ Să̤-hù”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hâng-chiu Sai-ô͘”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xihu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xihu”
- Norwegian: “Xihu”
- Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮੀ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه غرب”
- Polish: “Jezioro Zachodnie”
- 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”
- 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: “西湖”
- Yue Chinese: “西湖”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Xihu and Siyanjing.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Chengxin Hall, Wulin Academy and Gallery of the Wulin Academy of Arts.
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