Huzhou (chn)

Huzhou

Huzhou ranks 3,801st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Montdidier, Somme, Punta Arenas, and Vila Viçosa. Memorable people born in Huzhou include Zhao Mengfu, Shen Yue, and Wang Meng. Huzhou has been the birth place of many writers, and politicians. Huzhou is located in China.

Huzhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province. 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. Huzhou is located on the south bank of Taihu Lake. It is named after the lake. It is an ancient city in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of more than 2,300 years. It currently 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 area made of Wuxing District as Nanxun District is not being conurbated yet. Read more on Wikipedia