Shengzhou

Shengzhou (), formerly Shengxian or Sheng County, is a county-level city in central Zhejiang, south of the Hangzhou Bay, and is the south-eastern part of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing. It is about 1.5 hours drive from the provincial capital of Hangzhou through the Hangzhou-Ningbo, Shangyu-Sanmen Expressway. As of the 2020 census, its population was 675,226, but 1,094,262 lived in the built-up area made of Shengzhou City and Xinchang County largely being conurbated.

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Settlement.name: Shengzhou
Settlement.settlement_type: County-level city
Settlement.image_skyline: 嵊州市市景（国际大酒店拍摄）2018-04-01.jpg
Settlement.image_map: ChinaShaoxingShengzhou.png
Settlement.map_caption: location of Shengzhou City within Shaoxing
Settlement.pushpin_map: China Zhejiang
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Zhejiang
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: People's Republic of China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Zhejiang
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Prefecture-level city
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Shaoxing
Settlement.seat_type: Municipal seat
Settlement.area_total_km2: 1789.07
Settlement.area_urban_km2: 1789.07
Settlement.area_metro_km2: 3002.06
Settlement.population_as_of: 2020 census

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Economy
Art
Administrative divisions
Subdistricts
Towns (镇, ''zhen'')
Township (乡, ''xiang'')
Climate
Transportation
Food
References

==Economy== The city is the national and international top producer of ties.

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