Suzhou is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta, bordering Shanghai in the east, Jiaxing in the south, Taihu Lake in the west and the Yangtze River in the north. Suzhou has a subtropical monsoon maritime climate with four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall. It grows rice, wheat and rape, and produces cotton, sericulture and fruit. Its specialties include Biluochun tea, Yangtze river swordfish, Taihu whitebait and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

Suzhou, known as Wu in ancient times, is called Suzhou for short, also known as Gusu and Pingjiang. It is a national historical and cultural city, a scenic tourist city, a national high-tech industrial base, one of the important central cities of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, a central city of the G60 Science and Technology Corridor and an important part of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, and has the reputation of "paradise on earth".

Location context:

Suzhou is located in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta, in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, between north latitude119 55'-12120' and 30 47'-32 02'. The geographical coordinate of Suzhou city is 3 1 65438 north latitude. It is adjacent to Shanghai in the east, Jiaxing and Huzhou in Zhejiang in the south, Taihu Lake in the west, Wuxi in the north and Nantong across the river, with a total area of 8657.32 square kilometers.

The city is low-lying, with many rivers and lakes. Most of the surface of Taihu Lake is in Suzhou, and the area of rivers, lakes and beaches accounts for 36.6% of the city's land area. This is a famous Jiangnan water town.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou