Huzhou
|
Huzhou 湖州市 |
|
|---|---|
| Prefecture-level city | |
 |
|
 Location of Huzhou City jurisdiction in Zhejiang |
|
| Coordinates: 30°52′N 120°06′E / 30.867°N 120.100°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Zhejiang |
| Township-level divisions | 5 |
| Township-level divisions | 66 |
| Government | |
| • CPC Secretary | Sun Wenyou (孙文友) |
| • Mayor | Ma Yi (马以) |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 5,818.43 km2 (2,246.51 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,566.8 km2 (604.9 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 860.42 km2 (332.21 sq mi) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 2,893,542 |
| • Density | 500/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,293,219 |
| • Urban density | 830/km2 (2,100/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 757,165 |
| • Metro density | 880/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Area code(s) | 0572 |
| GDP (2009) | ¥111.2 billion |
| GDP per capita (2009) | ¥39,206 |
| License Plate | 浙E |
| Website | huzhou |
| Huzhou | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wu |
Vu-ciu (Huzhounese) Ghu-tseu (Shanghainese) |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Capital of the Lake District | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
| Transcriptions | |
|---|---|
| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Húzhōu |
| Wade–Giles | Hu-chou |
| Wu | |
| Romanization |
Vu-ciu (Huzhounese) Ghu-tseu (Shanghainese) |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Wu4-zau1 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Ôo-tsiu |
Huzhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China. Lying south of the Lake Tai, it borders Jiaxing to the east, Hangzhou to the south, and the provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu to the west and north respectively. At the 2010 census, its population was 2,893,542 inhabitants whom 757,165 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Wuxing District as Nanxun District is not being conurbated yet.
Huzhou, in its general aspect, is in the center of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Area, with the city center 10 km south of Lake Tai (the third largest freshwater lake in China). There are transportation links to the Provincial capital of Hangzhou 78 km away in the south, Jiangsu and Anhui province in the west, and the metropolitan municipality of Shanghai 150 km to the east.
Flowing quietly through the city is the Changxing-Huzhou-Shanghai Channel. It is also referred to as the "Eastern Rhine River" for the continuous barge transportation that goes on similarly to the more internationally known Rhine River in Germany.
The State Way 318 passes through Huzhou in an east-west direction and the State Way 104 in a north-south direction; the Nanjing-Huzhou-Hangzhou toll expressway and Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui toll expressway offers convenient access to major areas in the region.
The Express Xuancheng–Hangzhou Railway Station is located 8 km west of the city center. This railway line is part of the "secondary tunnel" in eastern China.
...
Wikipedia