Which city is Taihu Lake?

Anqing City, Anhui Province. Taihu County is located in the southwest of Anhui Province, at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, bordering Qianshan City and Huaining County in the east, Wangjiang County in the south, susong county in the southwest, Qichun County and Yingshan County in Hubei Province in the west and Yuexi County in the north. The total area is 2040 square kilometers.

Taihu County was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty (420). In ancient Chinese, "Tai" was sometimes used with "Tai" and "Da", meaning "Great Lake". Therefore, Taihu County is named after the lake. According to Nanji, it is named after its great lakes.

Taihu County is a hilly and low mountainous area in southwest Anhui, with high terrain in the northwest and low terrain in the southeast. Northwest of the county seat is the mountainous Dabie Mountain. There are 16 peaks above 800 meters above sea level, such as Jiangjun Mountain, Tongshan Mountain, Shan Jian Village, Liushengpo Mountain, Tianhua Jianshan Mountain and furong village, among which Jiangjun Mountain is the highest, with an altitude of 1 109 meters, which is a natural barrier for Anhui and Hubei provinces.

There are Cunninghamia lanceolata, Pinus massoniana, Phyllostachys pubescens, Cinnamomum camphora, Liquidambar formosana, Cyclobalanopsis glauca, Sapium sebiferum, Platycladus orientalis, Camellia oleifera, Tung oil tree and so on. In Taihu County, it is not only ubiquitous, but also has a long history of cultivation.

Taihu county has four distinct seasons and has the characteristics of northern subtropical monsoon climate. Winter is controlled by the northwest inland airflow, and the temperature is low; Due to the influence of the southeast ocean airflow, summer is hot and humid.

Hejiu Railway, Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway and National Highway 105 in Taihu County cross the east and west, and Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway passes through the territory, with Tianzhu Mountain Airport, Tianzhu Mountain Station and Anqing Station nearby.