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Which province and city does Wujiang belong to? What is the history and culture of Wujiang?

1, Wujiang District, belonging to Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, bordering Shanghai in the east, Taihu Lake in the west, Zhejiang in the south and Suzhou downtown in the north. The total regional area is 1 176.68 square kilometers, of which the water area is 26,700 hectares, accounting for 22.70% of the city's total area (excluding the water surface of Taihu Lake under its jurisdiction). By the end of 2065438+June 2009, Wujiang District had 4 streets and 7 towns, with a registered population of 832,700 and a floating population of 979,200.

2. Wujiang has a long history and culture, which has nurtured and formed a number of characteristic cultural resources such as sericulture and silk culture, water town culture, Millennium Canal culture, Chinese culture and Jiangcun culture. There are more than 140 historical celebrities here, among which Fan Li in the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Guimeng, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Xichan, an astronomer in the Qing Dynasty, Chen Qubing, a man of the Revolution of 1911, Liu Yazi, a patriotic poet and Fei Xiaotong, a sociologist, are outstanding.