West Lake
"West Lake" redirects here. For other uses, see West Lake (disambiguation).
This article is about the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. For the lake by the same name (and same characters) in Japan, see Saiko, Yamanashi.
West LakeWest Lake (Chinese: 西湖; pinyin: Xī Hú) is a famous fresh water lake located in central Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province of eastern China.
The lake is divided by three causeways called su di (苏堤) , bai di (白堤), and yanggong di (杨公堤).

The name "West Lake" (Xi Hu) is also used by a large number of lakes in China and surrounding countries (with 800 West Lakes in China according to Lonely Planet). However, the lake in Hangzhou is the most famous of these, and the terms "West Lake" and "Xi Hu" generally refers to this lake.