Since the 10th century, Suzhou has been an important center of China's industry and foreign trade. Around AD 100, during the Eastern Han dynasty, it became one of the ten largest cities in the world, mostly due to emigration from northern China. Local museums host abundant displays of its relics and many sites of historical interest exist. įounded in 514 BC, Suzhou has had a long and productive history. Its urban population grew at an unprecedented rate of 6.5% between 20, which is the highest among cities with more than 5,000,000 people.
Suzhou is now part of the Greater Shanghai metro area, incorporating most of Changzhou, Wuxi and Suzhou urban districts plus Kunshan and Taicang, with a population of more than 38,000,000 residents as of 2020. Suzhou is the most populous city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce.Īdministratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 6,715,559 in the city proper, and a total resident population of 12,748,262 as of the 2020 census in its administrative area. Suzhou ( / s uː ˈ dʒ oʊ/ Chinese: 苏州 Suzhounese: sou¹ tseu¹, Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. "Suzhou" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
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