East Lake (Wuhan)
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 or the second largest urban lake in China. Wuhan's East Lake covers an area of 88 square kilometers (33 square kilometers of water area). 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.
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| Dong Hu | |
| 东湖 (Chinese) | |
East Lake East Lake | |
| Location | Wuchang District and Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei |
| Coordinates | 30°33′30″N 114°24′00″E |
| Part of | Yangtze River Basin |
| Basin countries | China |
| Surface elevation | 10 metres (33 ft) |
| Islands | Luzhou (芦洲) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 東湖 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东湖 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | "East Lake" | ||||||
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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.