Suzhou
Suzhou is a city in Jiangsu 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.
- City with about 12,700,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code SZV
- 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 City”“Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province”“Suzhou, China”“Suzhou, Jiangsu”“Woo”“Wu”“Wu-hsien”
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Humble Administrator’s Garden and North Temple Pagoda.
Humble Administrator’s Garden
The Humble Administrator's Garden is a Chinese garden…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pingjiang and Canglang.
Shuangta Subdistrict
Suburb
Shuangta Subdistrict is a township-level division of Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Suzhou
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Latitude
31.3111° or 31° 18′ 40″ north
Longitude
120.6213° or 120° 37′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
CN SZH
Open location code
8Q328J6C+CG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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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”
- Breton: “Suzhou”
- Bulgarian: “Суджоу”
- Catalan: “Suzhou”
- Cebuano: “Suzhou (kapital sa prepektura)”
- Cebuano: “Suzhou Shi”
- Cebuano: “Suzhou”
- Central Kurdish: “سوژۆو”
- Chechen: “Сучжоу”
- 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”
- Dzongkha: “སུ་ཙེའུ། རྒྱ་ནག།”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوزو”
- 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”
- 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”
- Kirghiz: “Сужоу”
- Korean: “수저우”
- Korean: “쑤저우 시”
- Korean: “쑤저우”
- 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”
- 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: “Sucou”
- 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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