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Comprised of three towns - Wuchang, Hankou (汉口), and Hanyang (汉阳) - that face each other across the rivers and are linked by three bridges, Wuhan is shaped like a flying butterfly. It is simple in geographical structure - low and flat in the middle and hilly in the south, with the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) and Han rivers winding through the city. Dotted with hills and lakes, Wuhan boasts a natural landscape rarely found in any other big city.
The area was first settled more than 3,000 years ago.
During the Han Dynasty, and Hanyang became a fairly busy port.
In the 3rd centuries AD, walls were built to protect Hanyang (206 AD) and Wuchang (223 AD). The latter event marks the foundation of Wuhan. About 300 years ago, Hankou became one of the country's top four trading towns.
In 223 AD, the Yellow Crane Building (黄鹤楼) was constructed on the Wuchang side of the Yangtze River. Cui Hao (崔颢), a celebrated poet of Tang Dynasty, visited the building in the early 8th Century; his poem made the building the most celebrated architecture in southern China.
In 1911, Sun Yat-sen's followers carried out the Wuchang Uprising that led to the collapse of Qing Dynasty and establishment of Republic of China.
Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei in opposition to Chiang Kaishek during the 1920s.
The first Yangtze Bridge was built in Wuhan in 1957, thus connecting North and South China by railroad for the first time in history. Including its approaches, it is 5,511 feet long, and it accommodates both the double-track railway and a roadway.
The Yellow Crane Building that had been destroyed and reconstructed numerous times, was burned again in 1884. Reconstruction took place in 1981.
It is a sub-provincial city. The GDP per capita was RMB16,206 (ca. US$1,960) in 2003, ranked no. 114 among 659 Chinese cities.
Re Gan Mian is a kind of Hot Dry Noodle which is very popular in this city, together with Mian Wuo, a kind of fried dollut made from rice flour.Geography
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