Yangcheng Lake is in Suzhou.

Yangcheng Lake, also known as Yangcheng Lake, in the south of Jiangsu Province, five kilometers northeast of Suzhou City, across the Wuzhong District, Xiangcheng District and Kunshan City. Yangcheng Lake, east of Shanghai, west of Suzhou, Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, State Road 312 are adjacent to the district, and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is only a half-hour drive away. It has a shoreline of 9.67 kilometers, which is winding and poetic. It has a length of 17 kilometers from north to south, a maximum width of 8 kilometers from east to west, an area of 117 square kilometers, and a water storage capacity of 370 million cubic meters.

Yangcheng Lake has a total surface area of 180,000 acres, one of the lower Taihu Lake group of lakes, the Department of ancient Taihu Lake residual. The lake longitudinal sand ridge 2, Yangcheng Lake is divided into east, in the west, three lakes. East Lake is the largest, the depth of 1.7-2.5 meters; Lake and West Lake, the depth of 1.5-3.0 meters.

Yangcheng Lake Basin Characteristics

Yangcheng Lake is the third largest freshwater lake on the Taihu Lake Plain, the lake in the two natural ridges through the north and south, the lake is divided into east, middle and west lakes, of which the east lake is the largest, the three lakes are connected with a multitude of harbor and branches, is the Yangcheng area of flood control, flooding, diversion of water, irrigation of the storage lakes, but also the urban areas of Suzhou It is also the main drinking water source of Suzhou city and Kunshan city.

Yangcheng Lake along the lake is mostly low-lying polder, there are 63 in and out of the water harbor. Among them, 30 inlet ports, distributed in the western and northwestern, mainly Ritang River, Beihejing, etc.; 33 outlet ports, distributed in the east and the south, mainly in the Qiputang, Yanglin Tang, Loujiang and Lujing, etc.. Around Yangcheng Lake, there are Shengze Dang, Shahu, Bacheng Lake, Puppet Lake, Eel Lake and other small lakes, which together with Yangcheng Lake form the Yangcheng Lake Group.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yangcheng Lake