The Kuaiji Mountains ( or ''Guìjī Shān''), formerly romanized as the K'uai-chi Mountains, are a long mountain range in

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. They are named for Mount Kuaiji (also ''Kuàijī Shān'' in Chinese), the peak just southeast of

Shaoxing Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in northeastern Zhejiang province, China. Located on the south bank of the Qiantang River estuary, it borders Ningbo to the east, Taizhou, Zhejiang, Taizhou to the south ...

which is now known as

Mount Xianglu Mount Xianglu () is a mountain near Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. Its summit has an elevation of . History Its historic name was Mount Kuaiji (), Wade-Giles, formerly romanized as Mount K'uai-chi. It was an important site for ancient China's State ...

. Xianglu is the highest peak of the range, with an elevation of .

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