Suzhou is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, bordering Shanghai in the east, Zhejiang in the south, Taihu Lake in the west and the Yangtze River in the north. The geographical coordinates of Suzhou city are 3 1. 19 degrees north latitude and 0/20.37 degrees east longitude. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the north and south, beijing-shanghai railway and Beijing-Shanghai Expressway run through the east and west, and there is the Yangtze River in the north, which can be combined by river and sea. The traffic location is excellent.

Suzhou is a megacity in China, a larger city approved by the State Council, a national key scenic tourist city, one of the most developed cities in economy, and a national training base of Development Zone (Suzhou) of the Ministry of Commerce. Although the administrative level is a prefecture-level city, it enjoys the treatment of some sub-provincial cities. It is the city with the most developed economy, the highest degree of modernization, the largest economic aggregate and the highest per capita GDP in Jiangsu Province.

The topography of Suzhou city

Suzhou is low and flat, with plains accounting for 55% of the total area. Suzhou belongs to the Yangtze River Delta Plain and Taihu Lake Plain, and four secondary natural areas, namely, Shazhou Plain along the Yangtze River, Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Plain, Taihu Lake Lakeside Hilly Area and Yangcheng-Dianmao Lowland.

The terrain is characterized by gentle plains. The whole city is low and flat, and it slopes slowly from west to east. The plain is 3-4 meters above sea level, and the area around Yangcheng Lake and Wujiang River is only about 2 meters. Low mountains and hills are scattered all over the country, with an altitude of 100 ~ 350 meters, which are distributed in the western mountainous areas and Taihu islands.

Among them, Dome Mountain is the highest (342 meters), and there are Nanyang Mountain (338 meters), West Dongting Mountain Dimly discernible peak (336 meters), East Dongting Mountain Moli Peak (293 meters), Qizi Mountain (294 meters), Tianping Mountain (20 1 m) and Lingyan Mountain (182).

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou