Chao Hu
| Chao Hu | ||
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| Geographical location | Anhui Province , People's Republic of China | |
| Drain | Yuxi He → Yangtze River | |
| Places on the shore | Chaohu , Hefei | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 31 ° 30 ′ N , 117 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| surface | 756.2 km² | |
| volume | 1.7 km³ | |
| scope | 185 km | |
| Middle deep | 7.65 m | |
The Chao Lake or Chao Hu ( Chinese 巢湖 , Pinyin Cháo Hú ) is a freshwater lake between Chaohu , Hefei , Feidong and Lujiang in the center of the Chinese province of Anhui . It is the largest lake in Anhui and one of the five major freshwater lakes in China.
He is the Tancheng - Lujiang - fault zone 郯城-庐江断裂带 (abbr. Tan-Lu fault 郯庐断裂带 ) that the great in their northern section Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 caused.