Suzhou (苏州) is a major city in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, its city center being 100 km (62 mi) west of that of Shanghai
– and outer suburbs of the two global hubs meet. It is a major economic
center and focal point of trade and commerce, and Jiangsu's
second-largest, surpassed by its capital Nanjing. The city's north waterfront is on a lower reach of the Yangtze whereas it has its more focal south-western waterfront on Lake Tai – crossed by several waterways, its district belongs to the Yangtze River Delta region. Administratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 4.33 million in the city proper, and a total resident population (as of 2013) of 10.58 million in its administrative area.[6][7]
Its urban population grew at an unprecedented rate of 6.5% between 2000
and 2014, which is the highest among cities with more than 5 million
people
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