What is the city called "Venice of the East"?

Suzhou

Suzhou is located in the Taihu Plain in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta, with an average elevation of only 3-5 meters. There are some low hills scattered in the west, such as Lion Mountain, Tianping Mountain, Lingyan Mountain, Fangshan Mountain, Dongting Mountain and Xishan Mountain. Among them, Qiuqiu Mountain is 34 1.7 meters, which is the highest peak in Suzhou. Beautiful natural scenery and rich cultural landscape make many hills become famous tourist attractions.

Suzhou is a famous water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The ratio of water area to land area is as high as 4: 6. Suzhou has more than 400 lakes, large and small. China has Taihu Lake, Yangcheng Lake, Hucheng Lake and Jinji Lake. Suzhou * * * has more than 20,000 rivers, with a river network density as high as 1.5km per square kilometer. The main rivers are the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The ancients made use of the water situation in Suzhou, where the rivers and lakes are connected and the water network is intertwined, to excavate the river around the city and draw living water into the city, forming a water city pattern of "water country wins, rivers and streets run side by side".

Looking at the whole city, the plain accounts for 54.8%, the water surface accounts for 42.5%, and the hills account for 2.7%, forming a Suzhou terrain with low terrain, dense rivers and lakes and low hills.

East Danube

Lancang-Mekong River

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Lancang-Mekong River is the longest international river in Asia and the only river in Asia that connects six countries with one river. Known as the "Oriental Danube" by the world. It originates in Tanggula, flows through seven prefectures in Yunnan Province, flows through Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and finally flows into the South China Sea near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a total length of 4,880 kilometers.