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Wuhu City

Wuhu
芜湖市
Prefecture-level city
Wuhu Mirror Lake night.jpg
Location of Wuhu City jurisdiction in Anhui
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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