China,Wuhan,30.579997,114.269829,12,S

30.59248,114.28965,The David Perry English Training Center
30.597056,114.3001,My Second Year Apartment
30.583419,114.291056,My Third Year Apartment
30.589035,114.297032,York Bar and Tea Room - (约克英式茶馆)
30.579277,114.290879,Jianghan Road - (江汉路)
30.546767,114.29715,Yellow Crane Tower - 黄鹤楼
30.547742,114.254894,Guiyuan Temple - 归元寺
30.535489,114.352618,Wuhan University - 武汉大学
Wuhan (武汉), capital of Hubei province, is not that well known outside of China, but it's the third or fourth largest city in China, and in many respects is the center of China. It was originally three separate cities—Hankou (汉口), Hanyang (汉阳), and Wuchang (武昌). It grew into one city, and is now the only Chinese city that straddles the Yangzi River (扬子江)—or the Changjiang (长江) as it is normally called in China.

Several books about China, particularly older books, may mention Hankou or Hankow (for instance, a passage in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer mentions "the dirty yellow mouth of the river, the lights going up at Hankow..."), and indeed, this has been and still is the more commercially important of the three cities. The foreign concessions were all here (including the Russian concession where the 1911 Revolution had its spark), and several of the European buildings are still standing today. Today, it is the most vibrant and beautiful part of the city, with the great pedestrian street Jianghan Lu, and the café-lined avenue and riverside park on Yanjiang Dadao. The name of this part of the city means "mouth of the Han River," and if you look on the map, you can see the thin Han River flowing from the west and emptying into the Changjiang. Hankou is the upper left of the three land-masses.

Hanyang is the lower left land-mass. I've not been able to figure out what its name refers to. According to my dictionary, yang (阳) means, among other things, "north of a river". However, this part of the city is south of the Han River. The name may have originally been applied to another part of the town that was north of the Han River, and later came to mean this area.

On the other side of the Changjiang, on the right side of the map, is Wuchang. Wuchang means "flourishing from the military", as there have been several important arsenals and military garrisons here for several centuries.