• Area: 8494.41 km²
• Location: in the middle of Hubei Province of China
• Climate: subtropical monsoon
• Population: 9.1 million (as of 2006)
• People: Han Chinese and other minorities
• Language: Mandarin Chinese and Wuhan dialect
• Currency and monetary unit: Renminbi (CNC Yuan)
• Administrative demarcations: Three administration districts

Wuhan is the most populated city in central People's Republic of China.

Geograpy
Wuhan is situated in the middle of Hubei Province of China. It lies at the east of Jinghan Plain, and two rivers, Yangtze and Han River, pass through the city. Arising out of the conglomeration of three boroughs, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, Wuhan is known as the "thoroughfare of nine provinces"; it is a major transportation hub, with dozens fo railways, roads and expresswys passing through the city.
The metropolitan area comprises three parts - Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, commonly called the "Three Twons of Wuhan" (hence the name "Wuhan", combining "Wu" from the first city and "Han" from the other two). These three parts 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 Yangtze and Han rivers winding through the city.

Daily Life:
Wuhan mostly is plain and decorated with hills and a great number of lakes and pools. Wuhan's climate is a subtropical monsoon one with abundant rainfall and distinctive four seasons. Wuhan is known for its oppressively humid summers, when dewpoints can often reach 26 degrees Celsius or more. Spring and autumn are generally mild, while winter is cool with occasional snow. In recent thirty years, the average annual rainfall is 1269 mm, mainly from June to August; annual temperature is 15.8 - 17.5 degrees Celsius, annual frost free period lasts 211 to 272 days.
Special food: Hot and Dry Noodles, Re-gan mian is a kind of noodle which is very popular in this city. The Chinese word  re means hot and gan means dry. It is considered to be the most typical local food for breakfast.  Duck's Neck or Ya Bozi is a local version of this popular Chinese dish, made of duck necks and spices. Bean Pan or Doupi is a popular local dish with a soy skin containing egg, rice, beef, mushrooms and beans. Soup Bund or Tangboa is a kind of dumpling  with thin skin made of flour, steamed with very juicy meat inside, it is called Tang (soup) Bao (bun), because everty time one takes a bite form it the soup inside spills out. Salty Doughnut or Mianwo is a kind of doughnut with salty taste. It's much thinner than common doughnut, and is a typical Wuhan local food.
The first bridge, Hang Jiang Bridge at Wuhan was built over the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in 1957, carrying the railroad directly across the river between Snake Hill and Turtle Hill. The second bridge, a cable-stayed bridge, built of pre-stressed concrete, has a central span of 400 meters The Wuhan Second Changjiang Bridge is 4,678 meters in length (including 1,877 meters of the main bridge) and 26.5 to 33.5 meters in width. The third bridge, located 8.6 km southwest of the First Bridge, construction of Baishazhou Bridge started in 1977. The bridge, which is 3,586 meters long and 26.5 meters wide, has six lanes and has a capacity of 50,000 vehicles a day.
Wuhan Metro is the first one in the country to use a communication-based train control system (a moving block signalling system). The designed minimum interval is only 90 seconds between two trains and it features driverless operation.

Culture and Tourism:
At Wuchang you can find East Lake, the largest lake within a city in China. The Hubei Provincial Museum includes many artifacts excavated from ancient tombs, including a magnificent and unique concert bell set (bianzhong). A dance and orchestral show is given here, using reproductions of the original instruments. The Rock and Bonsai Museum includes a magnificent mounted platybelodon skeleton, many unique and finely figured rocks, a giant quartz crystal (as large as an automobile) and and outdoor garden with miniature trees in the penjing ("Chinese Bonsai") style. Some luxury Riverboat tours begin here, with several days of flatland cruising and then climbing through the Three Gorges with passage upstream past the Gezhouba and Three Gorges dams to the city of Chongqing. With the completion of the dam a number of cruises now start from the upstream side and continue east, with tourists traveling by motor coach through the three gorges, and some of the historic wall carvings will soon be underwater, much of the drama of the high cliffs and narrow passages remains.

Economy:
Wuhan is a sub-provincial city. Its GDP was RMB 259 billion and GDP per capita was apprixmately RMB 30,200 (US$ 3,790) as of 2006. In 2006, the city's average disposable income was 12,360 yuan.
Wuhan has currently attracted about 50 French invested companies, over one third of French investment in China, the most among Chinese cities.
Wuhan has a solid economic foundation. It is an importan functional center for economy, trade, finance, transportation, information and technology and education in Central China. Its major sectors include modern manufacture industry with opti-electronic information, automobile manufacture as the key components, steel manufacturing, new pharmaceutical sector, biology engineering, new material industry, environmental protection. Wuhan iron & Steel (Group) Co. and Dongfeng-Citroen Automobile Co., Ltd settle in this city.