WUHU

Wuhu 芜湖市
Prefecture-level city
Location of Wuhu City jurisdiction in Anhui
Country	China
Province	Anhui
County-level divisions	8
Municipal seat	Jiujiang District (31°22′12″N 118°23′33″E / 31.37000°N 118.39250°E / 31.37000; 118.39250)
Government
• CPC Secretary	Pan Chaohui (潘朝晖)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	5,988 km2 (2,312 sq mi)
• Urban	1,292 km2 (499 sq mi)
• Metro	972 km2 (375 sq mi)
Elevation	7.9 m (26 ft)
Population (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	3,545,067
• Density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
• Urban	1,498,917
• Urban density	1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
• Metro	1,264,539
• Metro density	1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Area code(s)	0553
GDP (2015)	¥245.7 billion
GDP per capita	¥67,592
License Plate Prefix	皖B
Website	http://www.wuhu.gov.cn/

Wuhu (simplified Chinese: 芜湖; traditional Chinese: 蕪湖; pinyin: Wúhú; literally "Weedy Lake") is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province, China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and Tongling to the southwest, Hefei to the northwest, Ma'anshan to the northeast, and the province of Jiangsu to the east, and is approximately 90 km (56 mi) southwest of Nanjing. Its population was 3,545,067 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 1,264,539 in the built-up (or metro) area made of 3 out of 4 urban districts (all but Sanshan not yet continuously urbanized).

The prefecture-level city of Wuhu administers 8 county-level divisions, including 4 districts and 4 counties.

By the end of 2011, the total population was estimated to be 3,842,100，of whom 1,450,000 live in the 4 urban districts and the others live in the counties. Vast majority of the local population are Han Chinese, though there are some Muslim Hui people as minorities. Jiang-Huai Mandarin, a branch of Mandarin Chinese, was widely spoken in urban area, while some people in the counties spoke Wu Chinese. Putonghua, or Standard Mandarin was commonly used in this area.

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