page_title: Wuchang District
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wuchang District / History
caption_attribution_description: English: An engraving from La Haye's edition of Du Halde's Description of China, Vol. I, p. 200. A map of Wuchangfu (武昌府, Wǔchāngfǔ), then capital of the viceroyalty of Huguang (湖廣, Húguǎng) and now the Wuchang District of Wuhan, Hubei. Français&#160;: "Vou-tchang-fou, Capitale de la Province de Hou-quang": Gravure extraite de Description de la Chine, édition de La Haye 1736. Tome 1 page 200. Plan de la ville de Wuchangfu.
context_page_description: Wuchang 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. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right bank of the Yangtze River, opposite the mouth of the Han River. The two other cities, Hanyang and Hankou, were on the left bank, separated from each other by the Han River.
  The name "Wuchang" remains in common use for the part of urban Wuhan south of the Yangtze River. Administratively, however, it is split between several districts of the City of Wuhan. The historic center of Wuchang lies within the modern Wuchang District, which has an area of 82.4 square kilometres and a population of 1,003,400. Other parts of what is colloquially known as Wuchang are within Hongshan District and Qingshan District. Presently, on the right bank of the Yangtze, it borders the districts of Qingshan to the northeast and Hongshan to the east and south; on the opposite bank it borders Jiang'an, Jianghan and Hanyang.
caption: The map of "Vou-chang-fou" in Du Halde's 1736 Description of China, based on reports from the Jesuit mission
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