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Hubei

Hubei is a province in . It has the seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland provinces.
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is the capital of Hubei Province in and a major port on the Yangtze River. Also known as "River City," is the largest metropolis in central China.

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, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most populous city in Hubei.

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, which was called Xiangfan, is a city in Hubei Province. It is comprised of two halves, and Fancheng. It is best known for being the site of an important battle between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongol Empire, which the Mongols won decisively, following which they were shortly able to conquer all of China.

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Cityis a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province. It is located in the southeast of Hubei Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, facing Huanggang City in the northeast, Ezhou in the north, Wuhan and Ezhou in the west, and Xianning in the southwest.

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is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei, China, bordering to the northeast, to the southwest, and to the north and west.

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is a city in Hubei Province on the banks of the Yangtze River. It has been an important historical city for 6,000 years, and is particularly famous for being the capital for the State of Chu during the Warring States Period, and for its importance during the Three Kingdoms period.

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is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Hubei Province, China. It is situated to the north of the middle reaches of the River and is bounded in the north by the and is named after Mount .

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is a city in the central-western part of Hubei Province in the southern central region of . is known as the "Gateway to Jingchu" and is one of the cradles of Chu culture.

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is a city in northwest Hubei Province, central China. It borders Wuhan City, Hankou area, around 40 km from Wuhan Tianhe Airport and 60 km from Central Wuhan City.

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is a diverse city in the southwest of Hubei Province. A political, economic and cultural center and transportation hub. It is an excellent tourist city in China, the national garden city, one of the nine major historical and cultural cities in Hubei province, and also City of Selenium.

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, directly under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province, is the only administrative region in China named after a forest area.

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is a town and county in the east of Hubei Province, bordering Anhui and Jiangxi along the Yangtze River.
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Hubei

Latitude of center
31° north
Longitude of center
112° east
Population
58,300,000
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Abbreviation
“鄂”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080661
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1806949
Wiki­data ID
Q46862
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Hubei” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Hubei”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Hubei”
  • Afrikaans: “Hubei”
  • Arabic: “خوبي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة خوبي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة هوبي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة هوبيي”
  • Arabic: “هوبي”
  • Arabic: “هوبيي”
  • Armenian: “Հուբեյ”
  • Arpitan: “Hubei”
  • Asturian: “Hubei”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hubey əyaləti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hubey”
  • Balinese: “Hubei”
  • Basque: “Hubei”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Хубэй”
  • Belarusian: “Хубэй”
  • Bengali: “হুপেই”
  • Breton: “Hubei”
  • Bulgarian: “Хубей”
  • Burmese: “ဟူပေပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Hubei”
  • Catalan: “Província de Hubei”
  • Cebuano: “Hubei Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھوبێی”
  • Chechen: “Хубэй”
  • Chinese: “Húběi Shěng”
  • Chinese: “Ô͘-pak-séng”
  • Chinese: “湖北”
  • Chinese: “湖北省”
  • Chinese: “鄂”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hubei”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hubey”
  • Croatian: “Hubei”
  • Czech: “Chu-pej”
  • Czech: “Hubei”
  • Dagbani: “Hubei”
  • Danish: “Hubei-provinsen”
  • Danish: “Hubei”
  • Dutch: “Hoepei”
  • Dutch: “Hoepéi”
  • Dutch: “Hubei”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوبيى”
  • Esperanto: “Hubei Sheng”
  • Esperanto: “Húběi Shěng”
  • Esperanto: “Hubei”
  • Esperanto: “Húběi”
  • Esperanto: “Hubejo”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Hubei”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Hubejo”
  • Estonian: “Hubei provints”
  • Estonian: “Hubei”
  • Finnish: “Hubei”
  • Finnish: “Hubein maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Hubein provinssi”
  • French: “Hou-pe”
  • French: “Hou-pei”
  • French: “Hubei”
  • French: “Húběi”
  • French: “Hupeh”
  • French: “Province de Hubei”
  • Galician: “Hubei”
  • Gan Chinese: “湖北”
  • Gan Chinese: “湖北省”
  • Georgian: “ხუბეი”
  • German: “CN-42”
  • German: “Hubei”
  • German: “Hupeh”
  • Greek: “Χουμπέι”
  • Greek: “Χουμπέϊ”
  • Greek: “Χουπέι”
  • Gujarati: “હુબેઇ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fù-pet-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fù-pet”
  • Hebrew: “הוביי”
  • Hebrew: “חוביי”
  • Hindi: “हुबेई प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “हुबेई”
  • Hindi: “हूबेइ”
  • Hindi: “हूबेई प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “हूबेई”
  • Hungarian: “Hubei”
  • Hungarian: “Hupej”
  • Icelandic: “Hubei”
  • Ido: “Provinco Hubei”
  • Indonesian: “Hubei”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Hubei”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Húběi”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Hubei”
  • Interlingua: “Hubei”
  • Irish: “Hubei”
  • Italian: “Hubei”
  • Italian: “Hupei”
  • Japanese: “フーペイ”
  • Japanese: “湖北省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “湖北省”
  • Kannada: “ಹುಬೈ”
  • Kazakh: “Хубэй”
  • Kongo: “Hubei”
  • Korean: “호북 성”
  • Korean: “호북”
  • Korean: “호북성”
  • Korean: “후베이 성”
  • Korean: “후베이”
  • Korean: “후베이성”
  • Kurdish: “Hubei”
  • Latin: “Hubei”
  • Latvian: “Hubei”
  • Latvian: “Hubejas province”
  • Literary Chinese: “Hubei Province”
  • Literary Chinese: “湖北”
  • Literary Chinese: “湖北省”
  • Literary Chinese: “鄂省”
  • Lithuanian: “Hubei”
  • Lithuanian: “Hubėjus”
  • Lombard: “Hubei”
  • Macedonian: “Хубеи”
  • Malagasy: “Hubei”
  • Malay: “Hubei”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hubei”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯨꯕꯩ”
  • Manx: “Hubei”
  • Marathi: “हूपै”
  • Marathi: “हूबेई”
  • Marathi: “हूबै”
  • Mazanderani: “هوبئی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hù-báe̤k”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘-pak-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘-pak”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ô·-pak”
  • Minangkabau: “Hubei”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰუბეი”
  • Mongolian: “Хүбэй муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хүбэй”
  • Nepali: “हुबेई”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hubei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hubei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hupei”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hubei”
  • Norwegian: “Hubei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hubei”
  • Ossetian: “Хубэй”
  • Pampanga: “Hubei”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੂਬੇਈ”
  • Persian: “هوبئی”
  • Persian: “هوبی”
  • Polish: “Hubei”
  • Polish: “Hupej”
  • Portuguese: “Hubei”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Hubei”
  • Quechua: “Hubei pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Hubei”
  • Russian: “Hubei”
  • Russian: “Хубей”
  • Russian: “Хубэей”
  • Russian: “Хубэй”
  • Samoan: “Hubei”
  • Scots: “Hubei”
  • Serbian: “Хубеи”
  • Serbian: “Хубеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hubei”
  • Sindhi: “ھوبئي صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හුබෙයි”
  • Slovak: “Chu-pej”
  • Slovenian: “Hubei”
  • Slovenian: “Hubej”
  • Spanish: “Hubei”
  • Spanish: “Hupeh”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Hubei”
  • Swahili: “Hubei”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Hubei”
  • Swedish: “Hu-pei”
  • Swedish: “Hubei”
  • Swedish: “Hupeh”
  • Swedish: “Hupei”
  • Tagalog: “Hubei”
  • Tajik: “Ҳубей”
  • Tamil: “ஊபேய்”
  • Tamil: “ஹுபேய் மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “హుబే”
  • Thai: “Hu Bei Province”
  • Thai: “Hubei”
  • Thai: “Hupeh”
  • Thai: “มณฑลหูเป่ย”
  • Thai: “มณฑลหูเป่ย์”
  • Thai: “หูเป่ย”
  • Thai: “หูเป่ย์”
  • Tibetan: “ཧུའུ་པེ་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧུའུ་པེ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་པེ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་པེ་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་པེ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་པེ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hubei”
  • Turkish: “Hubei”
  • Uighur: “Xubéy Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “خۇبېي ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Хубей”
  • Ukrainian: “Хубей”
  • Urdu: “ہوبئی”
  • Uzbek: “Xubey”
  • Venetian: “Hubei”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Bắc tỉnh”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Bắc”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngạc”
  • Vietnamese: “Sở”
  • Vietnamese: “tỉnh Hồ Bắc”
  • Walloon: “Hubei”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hubei”
  • Welsh: “Hubei”
  • Western Armenian: “Հուպէյ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوبے”
  • Wu Chinese: “湖北省”
  • Yue Chinese: “楚”
  • Yue Chinese: “湖北”
  • Yue Chinese: “湖北省”
  • Yue Chinese: “荊楚”
  • Yue Chinese: “鄂”
  • Zhuang: “Huzbaek”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hubei”. Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.