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Huzhou
Zhejiang, China · Asia
About Huzhou
Huzhou sits on the route: 25 minutes from Zhicheng.
Huzhou is in Zhejiang, China, with about 1 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Zhicheng, about 23 km away.
Huzhou (Chinese: 湖州; pinyin: Húzhōu, ; Huzhou dialect: ghou² cieu¹) is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province (Hangzhou–Jiaxing–Huzhou Plain, China). Lying south of Lake Tai, it borders Jiaxing to the east, Hangzhou to the south, and the provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu to the west and northRead more
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Huzhou is on the south bank of Taihu Lake, which it is named after. It has a history of more than 2,300 years. It governs Wuxing and Nanxun districts and three counties of Deqing, Changxing and Anji, with a total area of 5,818 square kilometers. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,367,579 inhabitants, of whom 1,015,937 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Wuxing District as Nanxun District was not yet being conurbated.
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Huzhou is in Zhejiang, China, about 23 km from Zhicheng.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,015,937
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 30.8703, 120.0933
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