Huzhou
Huzhou is a prefecture-level city in Zhejiang province, located on the southwest side of Lake Tai, a bit north of Hangzhou.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Nanxun
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Nanxun is a small town in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. It's known for its ancient water town but not as crowded as the water towns like Tongli or Zhujiajiao that are mostly visited by travellers from Shanghai or Suzhou.
Anji
Anji is a county of Huzhou in Zhejiang province, located on Lake Tai. Popular with Chinese tourists from Shanghai & Hangzhou, Anji County offers a glimpse of rural life amid the bamboo forests. The area has 60,000 hectares of bamboo groves.
Huzhou
- Type: City with 2,890,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China
- Also known as: “Hu-chou”, “Hu-chou-shih”, “Huchowfu”, “Huhinghsien”, “Huzhou City”, “Huzhou Shi”, “Wu-hsing”, “Wu-hsing-hsien-ch’eng”, “Wuxing”, and “吴兴”
- Historically known as: “Wu-hsing-hsien”, “Wuhing”, and “Wuxing Qu”
- Neighbors: Suzhou
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Huzhou Shi, Zhejiang, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.8943° or 30° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
120.0851° or 120° 5′ 6″ eastPopulation
2,890,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
HZCUnited Nations Location Code
CN HZHOpen location code
8Q22V3VP+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 3822785671OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1806535Wikidata ID
Q42664
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Huzhou” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Huzhou”
- Bashkir: “Хучжоу”
- Basque: “Huzhou”
- Belarusian: “Хучжоу”
- Bengali: “হুচৌ”
- Bengali: “হুজু”
- Bengali: “হুজৌ”
- Bengali: “হুঝাউ”
- Bengali: “হুঝৌ”
- Catalan: “Huzhou”
- Cebuano: “Huzhou (kapital sa prepektura sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Huzhou”
- Chinese: “Ô͘-chiu-chhī”
- Chinese: “湖州”
- Chinese: “湖州市”
- Czech: “Chu-čou”
- Danish: “Huzhou”
- Dutch: “Huzhou”
- Esperanto: “Huĝou”
- Esperanto: “Huĝoŭo”
- Estonian: “Huzhou”
- Finnish: “Huzhou”
- French: “Huzhou”
- Gan Chinese: “湖州市”
- Georgian: “სუჟოუ”
- German: “Huzhou”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fù-chû-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “חוג’ואו”
- Hungarian: “Hucsou”
- Indonesian: “Huzhou”
- Irish: “Huzhou”
- Italian: “Huzhou”
- Japanese: “湖州市”
- Kikuyu: “Huzhou”
- Korean: “호주 시”
- Korean: “후저우 시”
- Korean: “후저우”
- Korean: “후저우시”
- Literary Chinese: “湖州”
- Literary Chinese: “湖州市”
- Lithuanian: “Hudžou”
- Malagasy: “Huzhou”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hù-ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘-chiu-chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘-chiu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Huzhou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huzhou”
- Norwegian: “Huzhou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Huzhou”
- Persian: “هوجا”
- Polish: “Huczou”
- Polish: “Huzhou”
- Portuguese: “Huchou”
- Portuguese: “Huzhou”
- Russian: “Хучжоу”
- Slovenian: “Hudžou”
- Spanish: “Huzhou”
- Swedish: “Huchow”
- Swedish: “Huzhou”
- Tagalog: “Huzhou”
- Turkish: “Huzhou”
- Ukrainian: “Хучжоу”
- Urdu: “ہوثوو”
- Venetian: “Huzhou”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Châu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Huzhou”
- Welsh: “Huzhou”
- Wu Chinese: “吴兴区” (historical)
- Wu Chinese: “湖州市”
- Yue Chinese: “湖州”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Huzhou”. Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.