Shaobo Lake () is a freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province,

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. It is located between Gaoyou and

Yangzhou Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou, Jiangsu, ...

. Shaobo Lake is a part of the

Huai River The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of . It is located about midway between the Yellow River and Yangtze River, the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins ...

system as the Huai River flows south through Shaobo Lake on its way to the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...

like Gaoyou Lake. It is about 17 km long and 6 km wide, covering approximately 77 km². Looking across Grand Canal from Fenghuangdao - P1070226

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Lakes of Jiangsu Huai River {{Jiangsu-geo-stub