Shijiu Lake

Shijiu Lake is a freshwater lake in eastern China, situated at the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. One half of the lake that is to the west, belongs to the Dangtu County of Anhui Province and the other part lies in the Gaochun and Lishui Districts of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

The area of the watershed is 18,600 km2, with an elevation of 9.3 m, its length is 23 km and the greatest breadth from east to west is 15.5 km (the average breadth makes 9.15 km). The surface is equal to 2210.4 km2, and volume is about 858 e6m3. The maximum depth of the Shijiu Lake is 5.25 m, and the average depth is 4.08 m.