Suzhou Creek

Suzhou Creek (or Soochow Creek), also called the Wusong (Woosung) River, is a river that passes through Shanghai city centre. A sandbar within the river was the cause of navigation issues for the Port of Shanghai until dredging works designed and supervised by Johannis de Rijke, George Arnold Escher and others was completed in 1928. It is named after the neighbouring city of Suzhou (Soochow), Jiangsu, the predominant settlement in this area prior to the rise of Shanghai as a metropolis. One of the principal outlets of Lake Tai in Wujiang District of Suzhou, Suzhou Creek is 125 km (78 mi) long, of which 54 km are within the administrative region of Shanghai and 24 km within the city's highly urbanized parts. It flows into the Huangpu River at the northern end of the Bund in Huangpu District.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.