City Details: Quzhou

A few alternate names for Quzhou are: Cchue-cou, Ch'u, Ch'u-chou, Ch'u-hsien, Ch'u-hsien-ch'eng, Chu-chow, Chuchowfu, Ch’ü, Ch’ü-chou, Ch’ü-hsien

Quzhou is a prefecture-level city in western Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. Sitting on the upper course of the Qiantang River, it borders Hangzhou to the north, Jinhua to the east, Lishui to the southeast, and the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui to the south, southwest and northwest respectively. Its population was 2,276,184 inhabitants as of the 2020 census of whom 902,767 lived in the built-up area made of Qujiang and Kecheng urban Districts. Chinese actress and singer Zhou Xun was born in Quzhou.