What is the geographical location of Suzhou?

Suzhou is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta, bordering Shanghai to the east, Jiaxing to the south, Taihu Lake to the west, and the Yangtze River to the north.

Suzhou has a subtropical monsoon oceanic climate with four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall. Suzhou's terrain is low and flat, with plains accounting for 55% of the total area. It grows rice, wheat, and rape, and produces cotton, sericulture, and forest fruits. Its specialty products include Biluochun tea, Yangtze saury, Taihu whitebait, and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

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The ancient city of Suzhou is crisscrossed with rivers and ports and densely covered with lakes. The most famous lakes are Taihu Lake and Caohu Lake in the west; Dianshan Lake and Chenghu Lake in the east; and Dianshan Lake and Chenghu Lake in the north; There is Kuncheng Lake; in the middle there are Yangcheng Lake, Jinji Lake and Dushu Lake; the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal run through the north of the urban area.

The water from Taihu Lake flows into the Yangtze River from the north and Dianmao from the east, and then enters the Huangpu River through the Huangpu River; the water from the canal flows into Wangting from the west and leaves Shengze from the south; the "Three Rivers" that originally went to the sea now drain into the river from the east of the Huangpu River. , thus forming the three major water systems of Suzhou City.

Due to the rivers crisscrossing the city, Suzhou is also known as the Water City, Water City, and Water Town. The 13th-century "Marco Polo's Travels" praised Suzhou as the Venice of the East. The ancient city of Suzhou was praised by the French Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu as "miraculous workmanship".

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