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Yanguan tidal bore (2017). The Bay is known for hosting the world's largest tidal bore, up to 9 meters (30 feet) high, and traveling up to 40 km (25 mi) per hour. Yanguan Town Tide-Viewing Park (盐官镇观潮胜地公园 Yánguān Zhèn Guāncháo Shèngdì Gōngyuán), on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay some 50 km east of the city of Hangzhou, is regarded as one of the best place to watch ...
Hangzhou Bay Bridge (simplified Chinese: 杭州湾大桥; traditional Chinese: 杭州灣大橋; pinyin: Hángzhōu Wān Dàqiáo; Wu: Han-tseu-uae du-jiau) is a long 35.7 km (22.2 mi) highway bridge with two separate cable-stayed portions, built across the mouth of Hangzhou Bay in the eastern coastal region of China.
Hangzhou is classified as a sub-provincial city [76] and forms the core of the Hangzhou metropolitan area, [66] the fourth-largest in China. [77] It is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China. [18]: 86 Hangzhou comprises 10 districts, 1 county-level city, and 2 counties.
The capital Hangzhou marks the end of the Grand Canal and lies on Hangzhou Bay on the north of Zhejiang, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. The bay contains many small islands collectively called the Zhoushan Islands. Hangzhou is a historically important city of China and is considered a World City with a "Beta+" classification according to ...
Hangzhou Bay New Zone (simplified Chinese: 杭州湾新区; traditional Chinese: 杭州灣新區; pinyin: Hángzhōuwān Xīnqū) or Hangzhou Bay New Area is a development area in Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China. [1] [2] [3]
The Hangzhou Bay Bridge carries six lanes of G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway and G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway The ring of the Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway is entirely in Zhejiang Province . It begins at its southern end in Gaoqiao, Yinzhou District , Ningbo , at an interchange with the G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway and the G1504 Ningbo ...
Zhapu is the site of a deepwater harbor on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay, noted as a port since the Tang. [4] Under the Qing, an extensive canal network connected it to Hangzhou and turned it into the area's principal port. [2] Under the dynasty's restrictive trade policies, its merchants monopolized China's trade with Korea and Japan. [5]
Comprising an area of 7,620 square kilometres (2,940 square miles), [2] it is bound by Lake Tai to the north, the Qiantang River / Hangzhou Bay to the south, and Tianmu Mountain to the west. It includes all of the prefecture-level city of Jiaxing, most of Huzhou, and the northeastern part of Hangzhou.