Top:View of Three Pools Mirroring the Moon-pool, Middle left:Six Harmonies Pagoda, Middle upper right:Su Causeway, Middle lower right:Hu Xueyan Residence Garden, Bottom:Huxin Pavilion on West Lake

 Hangzhou (help·info) (Chinese: 杭州: Hangzhou dialect: ɦaŋ tsei; Mandarin pinyin: Hángzhōu Mandarin pronunciation: [xɑ̌ŋtʂóʊ]), formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Hangzhou is also the center of the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area, which is the fourth-largest metropolitan area nationally^[5]. It is governed as a sub-provincial city. As of 2010, the entire administrative division ("shì", 杭州市) or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people.^[6] The built up area of the Hangzhou municipality had a resident population of 6.242 million in 2010 (urban and suburban districts), of which 3.56 million lived in the six urban core districts. Within the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area, about 21.102 million people distributed over 34,585 square kilometers^[7].

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou