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Where is the Eagle Valley Scenic Area in Suzhou?

In Zhaojia Village, Nankeng Town.

Suzhou, referred to as "Su", was known as Gusu and Pingjiang in ancient times. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province. It is one of the important central cities in the Yangtze River Delta approved by the State Council, a national high-tech industrial base and a scenic tourist city. , joins the UNESCO Global Creative Cities Network and becomes a capital of crafts and folk arts. The city has jurisdiction over 5 districts and 4 county-level cities, with a total area of ??8657.32 square kilometers and a built-up area of ??477.63 square kilometers.

Hydrology

The ancient city of Suzhou is crisscrossed with rivers and ports and densely populated by lakes. The most famous lakes are Taihu Lake and Caohu Lake in the west; Dianshan Lake and Chenghu Lake in the east; and Kunming Lake in the north. Chenghu Lake; in the middle 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 discharges into the river from the north and Dianmao from the east, and then enters the river via the Huangpu River; the water from the canal enters Wangting from the west and leaves Shengze from the south; the "Three Rivers" that originally went to the sea now discharge into the river from the east of the Huangpu River, thus forming the Suzhou City Three major water systems.

Because of the criss-crossing rivers in Suzhou, it 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".