The college I am working at is called the Water Conservancy and Hydropower College of Zhejiang. It is one of 14 colleges/universities in the Xiasha higher education area, officially know as HEDA-Hangzhou economic development area

This area is a suburb of the city of Hangzhou. Downtown Hangzhou is 20 km away from here, and is the capital of the Zhejiang province.

Hangzhou is a city of 6.4 million people. In total, there may be around 30 colleges or universities in the greater Hangzhou metropolitan area. The Wikipedia entry for Hangzhou seems to be out of date in this respect.

The colleges around here seem to have been built by the same architect, as the buildings are very similar and it would be easy to get lost. Many of the colleges are built back to back, so you get the feeling of being in a super-sized campus.

A mere two hour train ride away lies the city of Shanghai which is the largest city in China with a population of 20 million people.

These facts are all the more mind boggling for someone who lives in New Zealand, a country of 4.3 million people in total.