Hangzhou Bay

American  

(Older Spelling) Hangchow Bay

noun

1. a bay of the East China Sea.

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Example Sentences

It made its first landfall Sunday in Zhejiang province just south of Shanghai, then moved north across Hangzhou Bay before hitting land again on Shanghai’s southern edge.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2021

The Hangzhou Bay, into which the Qiantang river empties, is more than 60 miles across at its mouth, but it narrows to a gap less than 13 miles across where it meets the Qiantang.

From National Geographic • Oct. 7, 2017

The area is known as the Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Zone – an economic development zone established by the local government in 2001.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2017

Manufacturing plants and industrial ponds outside Ningbo, China, extend into the mud flats of Hangzhou Bay.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2017