Shaoxing (chn)

Shaoxing

Shaoxing ranks 2,180th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Rochford, Sonneberg, and Lake Charles, Louisiana. Memorable people born in Shaoxing include Lu Xun, Emperor Duzong, and Emperor Lizong. Memorable people who died in Shaoxing include Wang Xizhi, Emperor Guangzong of Song, and Qiu Jin. Shaoxing has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Shaoxing is located in China.

Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in northeastern Zhejiang province, China. Located on the south bank of the Qiantang River estuary, it borders Ningbo to the east, Taizhou to the southeast, Jinhua to the southwest, and Hangzhou to the west. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,270,977 inhabitants among which, 2,958,643 lived in the built-up area of Hangzhou–Shaoxing, with a total of 13,035,326 inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia