It encircles Suzhou urban district, Sino-Singapore Industrial Park, New and High Technology Development Zone, and is surrounded with Shanghai, Hangzhou,Taihu Lake and Changjiang River respectively in four directions of east, south, west, and north. It's total area is 2,963km. Form west to east , it stretchs for 92.5km and form north to south, 18km. Wuxian city comes within the jurisdiction of Suzhou but enjoys relative independence. The terrain trends downwards slightly from the west to the east with its elevation ranging from 6.5m to 2m.
Plains constitute most of the eastern part while in the western part, there runs chains of hills.
Other 20 main rivers crisscross connecting such big lakes as Taihu,Yangchenghu,Chenghu and Caoghu. Biluochun tea, Dongtin red orange, Baisha loguat, red bayberry, ginkgo, sweet-scented osmanthus, chinese chestnut, water shield ,lotus root, Taihu whitebait, White shrimp, crab, pearl, black carp, eel , finless eel, etc. Wuxian,with its numerous beautiful scences and historical sites,is rich in tourist resources. Owing to adjustment of Taihu, it has marked difference in temperature during the four seasons, characteristic of temperate climate, appropiate rainful, adequate sunshine and long frost -free period. There are totally 319,733 households, averaging 3.09 persons per household.