Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang (crooked river) was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital.The name of the province is often abbreviated to "Zhe" Zhejiang borders Jiangsu province and Shanghai municipality to the north, Anhui province to the northwest, Jiangxi province to the west, and Fujian province to the south; to the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lie the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.译文浙江是中华人民共和国东部沿海省份。
“浙江”一词是钱塘江的旧名称，钱塘江流经省会杭州。省名常缩写为“浙”，北与江苏省和上海市接壤，西北与安徽省接壤，西与江西省接壤，南与福建省接壤；东面是东海，东海之外是日本的琉球群岛。
