Wuhan
Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province in China and a major port on the Yangtze River. Also known as "River City," Wuhan is the largest metropolis in central China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include East Wuhan and Hankou.
East Wuhan
Eastern Wuhan is the eastern part of Wuhan. It includes the administrative districts of Hongshan and Qingshan, as well as the easternmost portions of Wuchang District…
Hankou
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Hankou is in the western part of the city of Wuhan. This article includes all three administrative districts that were once part of the historic city of Hankou, namely the districts of Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qiaokou.
Wuchang
Wuchang is a district of Wuhan, known for being the site of the Wuchang Uprising, which began the revolution that eventually overthrew last imperial dynasty to establish a republic.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Hanyang and Jiangxia.
Hanyang
Hanyang is in the southwestern part of Wuhan. It is one of the three formerly independent municipalities that merged to form the city of Wuhan in the early 20th century.
Jiangxia
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Jiangxia is the southernmost and most sparsely populated of Wuhan's 13 districts. This largely rural area is home to several museums and scenic areas. Most of Jiangxia District still consists of the rural area south of the Wuhan city center.
North Wuhan
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Northern Wuhan is the northern part of Wuhan. It includes the administrative districts of Huangpi and Xinzhou.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Central Hospital of Wuhan and Dazhimen Station.
Central Hospital of Wuhan
Hospital
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The Central Hospital of Wuhan is a tertiary hospital located in Jiang'an District in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It was established in 1880 as a clinic under Hankou's Catholic church.
Dazhimen Station
Railway station
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Dazhimen or Ta-chih-men railway station in Wuhan, China, was the southern terminus of the Beijing–Hankou railway. It is located at the intersection of Jinghan Road and Chezhan Road in Jiang'an District, part of the former city of Hankou.
Hemmings ＆ Berkley Co （Hankou Jingming Foreign Firm）Building Former Site
Museum
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Hemmings ＆ Berkley Co （Hankou Jingming Foreign Firm）Building Former Site is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minzu and Shuita.
Wuhan
- Type: City with 12,500,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Hubei Province, China
- Also known as: “Wu Han”, “Wu-han-shih”, “Wuhan Shi”, and “Wuhan, Hubei Province”
- Categories: sub-province-level division, big city, human settlement, prefecture-level city, and locality
- Location: Hubei, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.5951° or 30° 35′ 42″ northLongitude
114.2999° or 114° 17′ 60″ eastPopulation
12,500,000Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)IATA airport code
WUHUnited Nations Location Code
CN NHNOpen location code
8P2PH7WX+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 244082219OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1791247Wikidata ID
Q11746
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Wuhan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Wuhan”
- Afrikaans: “Wuhan”
- Albanian: “Vuhani”
- Albanian: “Wuhan”
- Amharic: “ዉሃን”
- Arabic: “ووهان”
- Aragonese: “Wuhan”
- Armenian: “Ուհան”
- Arpitan: “Wuhan”
- Asturian: “Wuhan”
- Azerbaijani: “Uhan”
- Balinese: “Wuhan”
- Bambara: “Wuhan”
- Bashkir: “Ухань”
- Basque: “Wuhan”
- Belarusian: “Ухань”
- Bengali: “উহান”
- Bhojpuri: “वुहान”
- Bosnian: “Wuhan”
- Breton: “Wuhan”
- Bulgarian: “Ухан”
- Burmese: “ဝူဟန်မြို့”
- Burmese: “ဝူဟန့်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Wuhan”
- Cebuano: “Wuhan”
- Central Kurdish: “ووھان”
- Chechen: “Ухань”
- Cheyenne: “Wuhan”
- Chinese: “Bú-hàn-chhī”
- Chinese: “Wǔhàn shì”
- Chinese: “武汉”
- Chinese: “武汉市”
- Chinese: “武漢”
- Chinese: “武漢市”
- Chinese: “江城”
- Chuvash: “Ухань”
- Cornish: “Wuhan”
- Croatian: “Wuhan”
- Czech: “Wu-chan”
- Dagbani: “Wuhan”
- Danish: “Wuhan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Wuhan”
- Dutch: “Wuhan”
- Eastern Mari: “Ухань”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ووهان”
- Esperanto: “Vuhano”
- Estonian: “Wuhan”
- Extremaduran: “Wuhan”
- Faroese: “Wuhan”
- Fiji Hindi: “Wuhan”
- Fijian: “Wuhan”
- Finnish: “Wuhan”
- French: “Wuhan”
- Galician: “Wuhan”
- Gan Chinese: “武汉”
- Gan Chinese: “武汉市”
- Georgian: “უხანი”
- German: “Wuhan”
- Gothic: “𐍅𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽”
- Greek: “Γουχάν”
- Greek: “Ουχάν”
- Guarani: “Wuhan”
- Gujarati: “વુહાન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vú-hon-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Wuhan”
- Hawaiian: “Wuhana”
- Hebrew: “ווהאן”
- Hebrew: “ווחאן”
- Hindi: “वूहान”
- Hungarian: “Vuhan”
- Icelandic: “Wuhan”
- Ido: “Wuhan”
- Inari Sami: “Wuhan”
- Indonesian: “Wuhan”
- Interlingua: “Wuhan”
- Interlingue: “Wuhan”
- Irish: “Wuhan”
- Italian: “Wuhan”
- Japanese: “武漢市”
- Kabyle: “Wuhan”
- Kalaallisut: “Wuhan”
- Kalmyk: “Вухан балһсн”
- Kannada: “ವುಹಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Ухань қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Ухань”
- Khmer: “អ៊ូហាន”
- Kikuyu: “Wuhan”
- Kildin Sami: “Ухань”
- Kirghiz: “Ухань”
- Kölsch: “Wuhan”
- Kongo: “Wuhan”
- Korean: “우한 시”
- Korean: “우한시”
- Kurdish: “Wuhan”
- Ladino: “Wuhan”
- Latin: “Wuhan”
- Latvian: “Uhaņa”
- Latvian: “Vuhaņa”
- Limburgan: “Wuhan”
- Literary Chinese: “武漢市”
- Lithuanian: “Uhanas”
- Lojban: “uuxan”
- Lule Sami: “Wuhan”
- Luxembourgish: “Wuhan”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Wuhan”
- Macedonian: “Вухан”
- Malagasy: “Wuhan”
- Malay: “Wuhan”
- Malay: “ووهن”
- Malayalam: “വൂഹാൻ”
- Maltese: “Wuhan”
- Manx: “Wuhan”
- Maori: “Wuhan”
- Marathi: “वूहान”
- Mazanderani: “ووهان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ū-háng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bú-hàn-chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Wuhan”
- Mingrelian: “უჰანი”
- Mirandese: “Wuhan”
- Moksha: “Угань”
- Moksha: “Ухань”
- Mongolian: “Ухань”
- Mongolian: “Үхань”
- Nepali: “वुहान”
- Northern Frisian: “Wuhan”
- Northern Sami: “Wuhan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wuhan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wuhan”
- Norwegian: “Wuhan”
- Nyanja: “Wuhan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wuhan”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܘܘܗܐܢ”
- Ossetian: “Ухань”
- Pampanga: “Wuhan”
- Panjabi: “ਵੂਹਾਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਵੂਖ਼ਨ”
- Papiamento: “Wuhan”
- Persian: “ووهان”
- Pite Sami: “Wuhan”
- Polish: “Wuhan”
- Portuguese: “Wuhan”
- Pushto: “ووهان”
- Quechua: “Wuhan”
- Romanian: “Wuhan”
- Russia Buriat: “Ухань”
- Russian: “Ухань”
- Santali: “ᱩᱦᱟᱱ”
- Saterfriesisch: “Wuhan”
- Scots: “Wuhan”
- Serbian: “Вухан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wuhan”
- Silesian: “Wuhan”
- Sindhi: “ووهان”
- Sinhala: “වුහාන්”
- Sinhala: “වූහාන්”
- Skolt Sami: “Wuhan”
- Slovak: “Wu-chan”
- Slovenian: “Vuhan”
- Slovenian: “Wuhan”
- Somali: “Wuhan”
- Southern Sami: “Wuhan”
- Spanish: “Wuhan”
- Swahili: “Wuhan”
- Swedish: “Wuhan”
- Swiss German: “Wuhan”
- Tagalog: “Wuhan”
- Tajik: “Вуҳон”
- Tajik: “Ухан”
- Tamil: “ஊகான்”
- Tamil: “வுகான்”
- Tamil: “வூஹான்”
- Tatar: “Үһән”
- Telugu: “వుహాన్”
- Thai: “อู่ฮั่น”
- Tibetan: “ཝུའུ་ཧན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Wuhan”
- Tosk Albanian: “Wuhan”
- Tswana: “Wuhan”
- Tumbuka: “Wuhan”
- Turkish: “Vuhan”
- Turkmen: “Wuhan”
- Tyap: “Wuhan”
- Uighur: “ۋۇخەن شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Вухань”
- Ukrainian: “Ухань”
- Ume Sami: “Wuhan”
- Urdu: “ووہان”
- Uzbek: “Uxan”
- Venetian: “Wuhan”
- Veps: “Uhan‘”
- Veps: “Uhan’”
- Veps: “Uhan”
- Vietnamese: “Vũ Hán”
- Volapük: “Wuhan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wuhan”
- Welsh: “Wuhan”
- Western Panjabi: “ووہان”
- Wolof: “Wuhan”
- Wu Chinese: “武汉”
- Wu Chinese: “武汉市”
- Yakut: “Ухань”
- Yiddish: “וואוהאן”
- Yue Chinese: “武漢”
- Yue Chinese: “武漢三鎮”
- Yue Chinese: “武漢市”
- Zhuang: “Vujhan”
- “Wuhan”
- “वुहान”
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