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Zhouzhuang Water Town
China's best-preserved ancient water town with 900-year-old stone bridges, waterways, and traditional houses in the Yangtze Delta.
41 km · about 45 min drive
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Jiaxing
Zhejiang, China · Asia
About Jiaxing
Jiaxing sits on the route: 20 minutes from Weitang, 41km from Zhouzhuang Water Town.
Jiaxing is in Zhejiang, China, with about 1.2 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Weitang, about 19 km away.
Jiaxing (simplified Chinese: 嘉兴; traditional Chinese: 嘉興; pinyin: Jiāxīng; Wade–Giles: Chia-hsing), alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China. Lying on the Grand Canal of China, Jiaxing borders Hangzhou to the southwest, Huzhou to the west, Shanghai to theRead more
northeast, and the province of Jiangsu to the north. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,400,868 and its built-up (or metro) area, made up of 2 urban districts was home to 1,518,654 inhabitants.
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Within an hour or so of Jiaxing: Zhouzhuang Water Town (41 km).
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Jiaxing is in Zhejiang, China, about 19 km from Weitang.
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- Population
- 1,180,000
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 30.7522, 120.7500
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