Shengzhou

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Shengzhou 嵊州市
County-level city
Shengzhou Location in Zhejiang
Coordinates: 29°36′N 120°49′E / 29.600°N 120.817°E / 29.600; 120.817
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Zhejiang
Prefecture-level city	Shaoxing
Area
• County-level city	1,789.07 km2 (690.76 sq mi)
• Urban	1,789.07 km2 (690.76 sq mi)
• Metro	3,002.06 km2 (1,159.10 sq mi)
Population  (2020 census[1])
• County-level city	675,226
• Metro	1,094,262
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Shengzhou (Chinese: 嵊州; pinyin: Shèngzhōu), 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.^[2]