page_title: Hanyang District
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Hanyang District / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Hankou (Han-k'ou, Hankow) area, Hubei
context_page_description: Hanyang District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. Currently, it is a district and stands between the Han River and the Yangtze River, where the former drains into the latter. It is connected by bridges with its former sister cities, Hankou and Wuchang. Presently, on the left bank of the Yangtze, it borders the districts of Qiaokou to the north across the Han River, Jianghan to the northeast, Caidian to the southwest, and Dongxihu to the northwest; on the opposite bank it borders Wuchang and Hongshan. Guiyuan Temple is located in Hanyang.
  The name "Hanyang" means "the Yang side of Han River", referring to the town's historic location on the north bank of the Han River mouth. However, the lower Han River changed course to the north side of the town during Ming dynasty's Chenghua-era. The town, now on the south side of the river, should have been renamed to "Hanyin" by naming convention, but the name "Hanyang" remained as it was well-established since the Sui dynasty.
caption: Map including Hanyang (labeled as HAN-YANG 漢陽) (1953)
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