Hankou District
| Hankou 汉口市 |
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| City of China | |||||
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 3 July 1921 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 16 May 1949 | |||
| Today part of | Part of Wuhan (Jiang'an, Jianghan, & Qiaokou) | ||||
Coordinates: 30°34′52″N 114°16′21″E / 30.581179°N 114.272597°E
Hankou (Chinese: t , s , p Hànkǒu), formerly romanized as Hankow (Hangkow), was one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan municipality, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers where the Han falls into the Yangtze. Hankou is connected by bridges to its former sister cities Hanyang (between Han and Yangtze) and Wuchang (on the south side of the Yangtze).
Hankou is the main port of Hubei province.
The city's name literally means "Mouth of the Han", from its position at the confluence of the Han with the Yangtze River. The name appears in a Tang Dynasty poem by Liu Changqing. Other historical names for the city include Xiakou (), Miankou (), and Lukou ().
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