East Lake (Wuhan)

East Lake
Dong Hu
东湖 (Chinese)
East Lake is located in China
East Lake
East Lake
East Lake is located in Hubei
East Lake
East Lake
LocationWuchang District and Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei
Coordinates30°33′30″N 114°24′00″E / 30.5583°N 114.4000°E / 30.5583; 114.4000
Part ofYangtze River Basin
Basin countriesChina
Surface elevation10 metres (33 ft)
IslandsLuzhou (芦洲)
East Lake
Traditional Chinese東湖
Simplified Chinese东湖
Literal meaning"East Lake"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDōng Hú

East Lake (simplified Chinese: 东湖; traditional Chinese: 東湖; pinyin: Dōng Hú) is a large freshwater lake within the city limits of Wuhan, China, the largest[1] or the second largest[2] urban lake in China. Wuhan's East Lake covers an area of 88 square kilometers (33 square kilometers of water area[3]). It is one of the 5A tourist zones of China, and admits over a million people yearly. It is one of the largest sites in Huazhong District. It is also the largest "City Lake" in China. East Lake is made of four areas, Ting Tao, Moshan, Luo Yan Island and Museum of Hubei Province.

The President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping and the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on Wuhan's East Lake in 2018.

One end of Moshan features a Daoist temple built over the putative site of where one of the characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms performed special Qimen Dunjia rites before the famous battle of Red Cliffs. No one knows precisely the actual location, but the Moshan site was an archeological dig in the early part of the twentieth century.

  1. ^ "大城崛起". Archived from the original on 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  2. ^ "你知道汤逊湖、庙山、藏龙岛的传说和由来吗?". Sohu.
  3. ^ "Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area: Tingtao, Mo Hill, Bird Forest". Travelchinaguide.com. Retrieved 2022-05-26.