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Wǔhàn ( Traditional Chinese: 武漢, Simplified Chinese: 武汉) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populated city in central China. It lies at the confluence of the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) and Han Rivers. It has a population of approximately 7,000,000 people.
The metropolitan area contains three cities - Wchng (武昌), Hànku (汉口), and Hànyáng (汉阳) which face each other across the rivers and are linked by bridges, including one of the first modern bridges in China, known as the First Bridge. It is simple in geographical structure - low and flat in the middle and hilly in the south, with the Chang Jiang and Han rivers winding through the city.
The area was first settled more than 3,000 years ago. During the Han Dynasty, Hanyang became a fairly busy port. In the 3rd centuries AD, walls were built to protect Hanyang (AD 206) and Wuchang (AD 223). The latter event marks the foundation of Wuhan. In AD 223, the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼) was constructed on the Wuchang side of the Yangtze River. Cui Hào (崔颢), a celebrated poet of Tang Dynasty, visited the building in the early 8th Century; his poem made the building the most celebrated building in southern China. Under the Mongol ruler ( Yuan Dynasty), Wuchang was promoted to the status of provincial capital. By approximately 300 years ago, Hankou had become one of the country's top four trading towns.
In the late 1800's railroads were extended on a north-south axis through this city, which then became an important transhipment point between rail and river traffic. At this time foreign powers extracted concessions, with the riverfront of Hankow being divided up into various foreign controlled merchant districts.
In 1911, Sun Yat-senSun Yat-sen ( November 12, 1866 March 12, 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman. He had a significant influence in the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China. A founder of the Kuomintang, Sun was the firs's followers launched the Wuchang UprisingThe Wuchang Uprising (, pinyin: Wchang Qyi) of October 10 1911, started the Xinhai Revolution, which triggered the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China. In 1900, the ruling Qing Dynasty decided to create a modernized arm that led to the collapse of the Qing DynastyThe Qing Dynasty ( Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: ; pinyin: qing chao; Wade-Giles: ch'ing ch'ao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China expanded into China proper and the surrou and the establishment of the Republic of ChinaThe Republic of China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-hua Min-kuo, Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHua MinGuo, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhonghua Minguo) is a de facto sovereign state that currently administers the island groups of Taiwan, Peng. Wuhan was the capital of a leftist KuomintangThe Kuomintang (KMT; Traditional Chinese: Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo Guomindng; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguo Guomindang; literally the National People's Party of China , also known as the Nationalist Party is a political party government led by Wang JingweiWang Jingwei ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Wng Jingwei, Wade-Giles: Wang Ching-wei) ( 1883 November 1944), was a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang and is most noted from breaking with Chiang Kai-Shek and forming a Ja in opposition to Chiang Kai-shekChiang Kai-shek ( October 31, 1887 April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He commanded the Northern Expedition to unify China against the warlor during the 1920s.
The Yellow Crane Tower, which had been destroyed and reconstructed numerous times, was burned again in 1884. Reconstruction took place in 1981. The reconststruction utilized modern materials and even includes an elevator, yet in outward appearance and detail is true in spirit to the traditional design of the tower through the centuries
The city has been subject to numerous devastating floods, expected to be controlled by the Three Gorges Dam, recently completed.
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