Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Many places have been described as the Venice of the North, Venice of the South, Venice of the East or Venice of the West, after Venice in Italy: North: Stockholm, Birmingham, Bruges, St Petersburg, Amsterdam, Giethoorn, Ottawa, Manchester, Hamburg. South: Zakynthos, Tarpon Springs, Florida, Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, Sete in France East: Bangkok, Udaipur in Madhya Pradesh, Alleppey in Kerala West: Nantes, Galway, San Antonio China: Suzhou Hong Kong: Tai O village Middle East: Basra (Iraq) Also, the country name of Venezuela means "little Venice". This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.