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East China
Jiangsu

Suzhou

Suzhou is a city in province, famed for its beautiful gardens and traditional waterside architecture. A group of gardens form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town has many canals; Marco Polo called it the Venice of the East.
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  • Type: City with 12,700,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China, former capital of the kingdom of Wu
  • Also known as: “Soo Chow”, “Soochoo”, “Soutchew”, “Su-chou”, “Suchew”, “Suchow”, “Suzhou, China”, “Suzhou, Jiangsu”, “Woo”, “Wu”, and “Wu-hsien”
  • Historically known as: “Soochow”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Humble Administrator’s Garden and North Temple Pagoda.

Garden
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Humble Administrator's Garden is a Chinese garden in Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most famous of the gardens of Suzhou. The garden is located at 178 Northeast Street, Gusu District.

Photo: Jakubhal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Beisi Pagoda or is a Chinese pagoda located at Bao'en Temple in Suzhou, Province, . The base of the pagoda has an octagonal frame, and the tower rises nine stories in a total height of 76 m.

Garden
Photo: Jakubhal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a garden located at 23 Yuanlin Road in Gusu District, Suzhou, , . The garden is famous for the large and labyrinthine grotto of taihu rocks at its center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pingjiang Road.

Suburb
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, historically known as Shiquan Li, is a street and historic district in Gusu District, northeastern Suzhou, , . It is a well-preserved area and is part of the so-called Old Town of Suzhou.

Suzhou

Latitude
31.3111° or 31° 18′ 40″ north
Longitude
120.6213° or 120° 37′ 17″ east
Population
12,700,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
SZV
United Nations Location Code
CN SZH
Open location code
8Q328J6C+CG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244084673
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1886760
Wiki­data ID
Q42622
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Suzhou” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sutsjou”
  • Afrikaans: “Suzhou, Jiangsu”
  • Arabic: “سوتشو”
  • Arabic: “سوجو (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “سوجو”
  • Armenian: “Սուչժոու”
  • Asturian: “Suzhou”
  • Balinese: “Suzhou”
  • Basque: “Suzhou”
  • Belarusian: “Сучжоў”
  • Belarusian: “Усянь”
  • Bengali: “সুচৌ”
  • Bengali: “সুজু”
  • Bengali: “সুঝু”
  • Bengali: “সুঝৌ”
  • Breton: “Suzhou”
  • Bulgarian: “Суджоу”
  • Catalan: “Suzhou”
  • Cebuano: “Suzhou (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Suzhou Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Suzhou”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوژۆو”
  • Chechen: “Сучжоу”
  • Chinese: “So͘-chiu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Sūzhōu Shì”
  • Chinese: “Sūzhōu”
  • Chinese: “吴”
  • Chinese: “姑苏”
  • Chinese: “苏”
  • Chinese: “苏州”
  • Chinese: “苏州市”
  • Chinese: “菇蘇”
  • Chinese: “蘇”
  • Chinese: “蘇州”
  • Chinese: “蘇州市”
  • Croatian: “Suzhou”
  • Czech: “Su-čou”
  • Danish: “Suzhou”
  • Dutch: “Suzhou (Jiangsu)”
  • Dutch: “Suzhou”
  • Dutch: “Wuxian”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوزو”
  • Esperanto: “Suĝou”
  • Esperanto: “Suĝoŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Suĵou”
  • Esperanto: “Suzhou”
  • Estonian: “Suzhou Shi”
  • Finnish: “Suzhou”
  • French: “Souchow”
  • French: “Suzhou”
  • French: “Wuxian”
  • Galician: “Suzhou”
  • Gan Chinese: “苏州市”
  • Georgian: “სუჭოუ”
  • German: “Suzhou”
  • Greek: “Σουτσόου”
  • Gujarati: “સુઝોઉ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sû-chû-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “סוג’ואו (ג’יאנגסו)”
  • Hebrew: “סוג’ואו”
  • Hebrew: “סוגואו”
  • Hindi: “सूज़ौ”
  • Hindi: “सूझोऊ”
  • Hungarian: “Szucsou”
  • Icelandic: “Suzhou”
  • Indonesian: “Suzhou”
  • Irish: “Suzhou”
  • Italian: “Suzhou”
  • Japanese: “Suzhou”
  • Japanese: “苏州市”
  • Japanese: “蘇州市”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಝೋವ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸೂಝೌ”
  • Kikuyu: “Suzhou”
  • Korean: “수저우”
  • Korean: “쑤저우 시”
  • Korean: “쑤저우”
  • Korean: “쑤저우시”
  • Kurdish: “Suzhou”
  • Lao: “ຊູໂຈ”
  • Latin: “Suceu”
  • Latin: “Sucheu”
  • Latin: “Sucheum”
  • Latin: “Suzhou”
  • Latin: “urbs Suceuvensis”
  • Latvian: “Sudžou”
  • Literary Chinese: “蘇州”
  • Literary Chinese: “蘇州市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sudžou”
  • Lithuanian: “Suzhou”
  • Lithuanian: “Wuxian”
  • Macedonian: “Суџоу”
  • Malagasy: “Suzhou”
  • Malay: “Suzhou”
  • Malayalam: “സുഝൗ”
  • Malayalam: “സുഴൗ”
  • Maltese: “Suzhou”
  • Marathi: “सुचौ”
  • Marathi: “सूचौ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sŭ-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “So͘-chiu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “So͘-chiu”
  • Moksha: “Сучжоу”
  • Mongolian: “Сүжоу”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Soochow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suchow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suzhou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suzhou i Jiangsu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suzhou”
  • Norwegian: “Suzhou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Suzhou”
  • Ossetian: “Сучжоу”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਜ਼ੂ”
  • Persian: “سوژو”
  • Persian: “سوژوو”
  • Polish: “Soochow”
  • Polish: “Suczou”
  • Polish: “Suzhou”
  • Portuguese: “Soochow”
  • Portuguese: “Sucheu”
  • Portuguese: “Suzhou”
  • Romanian: “Suzhou”
  • Russian: “Сучжоу”
  • Russian: “Усянь”
  • Scots: “Suzhou”
  • Serbian: “Суџоу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Suzhou”
  • Sindhi: “سوزهو”
  • Sinhala: “සුශෞ”
  • Slovenian: “Sudžov”
  • Slovenian: “Suzhou”
  • Slovenian: “Sužu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوژو”
  • Spanish: “Gran Ciudad de Helu”
  • Spanish: “Suchow”
  • Spanish: “Suzhou”
  • Spanish: “Wuxian”
  • Swedish: “Soochow”
  • Swedish: “Suzhou Shi”
  • Swedish: “Suzhou”
  • Tagalog: “Suzhou”
  • Tamil: “சுசோ”
  • Telugu: “సుజ్హౌ”
  • Thai: “ซูโจว”
  • Turkish: “Suzhou”
  • Turkish: “Wuzhong”
  • Uighur: “Suju shehiri”
  • Uighur: “سۇجۇ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Сучжоу”
  • Urdu: “سوژوو”
  • Uzbek: “Suchjou”
  • Venetian: “Suzhou”
  • Vietnamese: “Tô Châu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suzhou”
  • Welsh: “Suzhou”
  • Wu Chinese: “Suzhou City”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏州”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏州市”
  • Wu Chinese: “蘇州”
  • Yakut: “Сучжоу”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇州”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇州市”

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