Soochow Creek

Suzhou Creek, also called the Wusong River, is a river that passes through city centre. A sandbar within the river was the cause of navigation issues for the until dredging works designed and supervised by Johannis de Rijke, George Arnold Escher and others was completed in 1928.
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  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 7 metres (23 feet)
  • Description: creek in Jiangsu and Shanghai, China
  • Also known as
    “Song River”
    “Soochow Ho”
    “Su-chou Creek”
    “Su-chou Ho”
    “Suchow Creek”
    “Sung River”
    “Suzhou Creek”
    “Wu Chiang”
    “Wu-hsien Creek”
    “Wu-sung Chiang”
    “Wusong Creek”
    “Wusong River”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Waibaidu Bridge and Monument to the People’s Heroes.
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The Shanghai People's Heroes Memorial Tower is a concrete structure in , China.
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is the name of the triangular stretch…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waitan and Huangpu.
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is a suburb.
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is an administrative district of , the…
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The is the area inside the ancient walled…

Soochow Creek

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Latitude
31.24502° or 31° 14′ 42″ north
Longitude
121.48681° or 121° 29′ 13″ east
Open location code
8Q336FWP+2P
Geo­Names ID
1790966
Wiki­data ID
Q907674

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Soochow Creek” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Ríu Suzhou Creek”
  • Catalan: “Suzhou”
  • Cebuano: “Wusong Jiang”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای ووسۆنگ”
  • Chinese: “吳江”
  • Chinese: “吳淞江”
  • Chinese: “吴淞江”
  • Chinese: “松江”
  • Chinese: “松陵江”
  • Chinese: “笠澤江”
  • Chinese: “苏州河”
  • Chinese: “蘇州河”
  • Czech: “Su-čou”
  • Danish: “Suzhou”
  • Danish: “Suzhoufloden”
  • Dutch: “Suzhou”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوتشو كريك”
  • French: “rivière Suzhou”
  • French: “Suzhou Creek”
  • French: “Suzhou River”
  • French: “Suzhou”
  • French: “Wusong”
  • German: “Suzhou”
  • Hungarian: “Szucsou-folyó”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Suzhou”
  • Japanese: “呉淞江”
  • Japanese: “松陵江”
  • Japanese: “蘇州クリーク”
  • Japanese: “蘇州河”
  • Korean: “쑤저우허”
  • Korean: “우쑹강”
  • Latin: “Suceu Amnis”
  • Latin: “Suceu Fluvius”
  • Latin: “Sucheum Amnis”
  • Latin: “Sung Fluvius”
  • Lithuanian: “Sudžou”
  • Macedonian: “Суџоу (река)”
  • Macedonian: “Суџоу”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suzhou Creek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suzhou He”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suzhou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suzhouelven”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wusong”
  • Norwegian: “Suzhou”
  • Russian: “Сучжоухэ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوزهوو کرک چایی”
  • Spanish: “Rio Suzhou”
  • Spanish: “Río Suzhou”
  • Spanish: “Rio Wusong”
  • Spanish: “Río Wusong”
  • Swedish: “Suzhouån”
  • Swedish: “Wusong Jiang”
  • Turkish: “Sucou Çayı”
  • Turkish: “Suzhou Çayı”
  • Ukrainian: “Сучжоу”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Wusong”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Tô Châu”
  • Welsh: “Cilfach Suzhou”
  • Wu Chinese: “吳淞江”
  • Yue Chinese: “吳江”
  • Yue Chinese: “吳淞江”
  • Yue Chinese: “松江”
  • Yue Chinese: “松陵江”
  • Yue Chinese: “笠澤江”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇州河”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Astor House Hotel and The Bund.

Shanghai: Highlights

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