Qiaokou, Wuhan Explained

Qiaokou
Settlement Type:	District
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Pushpin Map:	China Hubei
Pushpin Label:	Qiaokou
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Hubei
Parts Type:	Subdistricts
Parts:	11
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	People's Republic of China
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Hubei
Subdivision Type2:	Sub-provincial city
Subdivision Name2:	Wuhan
Subdivision Type3:	Subdivisions
Area Footnotes:	^[1]
Area Total Km2:	46.39
Population Footnotes:	^[2]
Population Total:	828644
Population As Of:	2010
Population Density Km2:	17863
Coordinates Footnotes:	^[3]
Coordinates:	30.5962°N 114.218°W
Timezone:	China Standard
Utc Offset:	+8
Blank Name Sec1:	Wuhan district map

L:	"Qiao Mouth District"
P:	Qiáokǒu Qū

Qiaokou 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, situated on the northern (left) bank of the Han River. Along with Dongxihu, it is the only district of Wuhan to not have any shoreline along the Yangtze River, and it borders Dongxihu to the north, Jianghan to the east, and Hanyang to the south across the Han River. 'Qiaokou' is used as an example of the usage of the rarely used character Chinese: 礄/Chinese: 硚 in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary.^[4] It is said that the character 'qiao' refers to stone bridges constructed over the Han River in the Late Qing.^[5] ^[6] The district is part of the historical Hankou.

Geography

Administrative divisions

As of 2017, Qiaokou District was divided into eleven subdistricts:^[7] ^[8]

	Name	Chinese (S)	English Meaning	Population (2010)	Area (km²)(2016)^[9] ^[10]
Subdistricts
1		Chinese: [[:zh:易家街道\|易家街道]]	Yi Family	86,627	9.2
2		Chinese: [[:zh:古田街道\|古田街道]]	Old Field		5.5
3		Chinese: [[:zh:长丰街道\|长丰街道]]	Perennial harvest	179,152	10.9
4		Chinese: [[:zh:韩家墩街道\|韩家墩街道]]	Han's Family pier	94,340	4.59
5		Chinese: [[:zh:宗关街道\|宗关街道]]	Zong Guan	64,649	4.7
6		Chinese: [[:zh:汉水桥街道\|汉水桥街道]]	Hanshui Bridge	71,776	2.35
7		Chinese: [[:zh:宝丰街道\|宝丰街道]]	Treasure abundant	56,647	2.31
8		Chinese: [[:zh:荣华街道\|荣华街道]]	Prosperity	50,592	0.82
9		Chinese: [[:zh:汉中街道\|汉中街道]]		29,597	1.28
10		Chinese: [[:zh:六角亭街道\|六角亭街道]]	Six Corner Pavilion	46,285	0.93
11		Chinese: [[:zh:汉正街道\|汉正街道]]	Hanzheng	113,975	1.67
former	Chongren Subdistrict	Chinese: [[:zh:崇仁街道\|崇仁街道]]	Venerate Benevolence	36,025

External links

Qiaokou District government official site

Notes and References

Web site: Wuhan Statistical Yearbook 2010 . Wuhan Statistics Bureau . 2011-07-31 . 15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111105213243/http://www.whtj.gov.cn/documents/tjnj2010.pdf . November 5, 2011 .
Web site: zh:武汉市2010年第六次全国人口普查主要数据公报. http://www.whtj.gov.cn/Article/ShowArticle.aspx?id=6417. Wuhan Statistics Bureau. zh. 2011-05-11. 2011-06-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20111025103716/http://www.whtj.gov.cn/Article/ShowArticle.aspx?id=6417. 2011-10-25. dead.
Web site: 硚口区概况地图_区划地名网.
Book: zh:現代漢語詞典(第七版) . Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Seventh Edition). . 1 September 2016. . 978-7-100-12450-8. 1052 . "Chinese: 硚(礄) Chinese: 1 用于地名:{...".
Web site: http://www.zhlsw.cn/readnews.asp?newsid=1513 . zh:武汉卢氏 . zhlsw.cn . zh-hans . Chinese: 清末，因港岔交错，建大量石桥，而得名“硚口 . 2018-12-13.
Web site: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_49b38e770102e7su.html . zh:武汉：硚口的由来 . . Chinese: 据说用“硚”作地名的，仅湖北武汉市“硚口”和四川自贡市“硚头”而已。其中湖北武汉的“硚口”源于明末建石桥而得名。...后在两河（玉带河和护城河）上总共修筑了37座石桥和木桥，其中有两座石桥因架于玉带河和护城河通往汉水处，分称大、小硚口。而这两座桥因均为石砌，故写作石旁“硚”。至于那两座桥叫什么名字？已无从查考。 . 2018-12-13.
Web site: http://www.qiaokou.gov.cn/qkgk/qkjj/201405/t20140530_125693.shtml . zh:硚口概述 . Overview of Qiaokou . zh . Qiaokou District People's Government . Chinese: 全区土地面积41.46平方千米，下辖易家、古田、长丰、韩家墩、宗关、汉水桥、宝丰、荣华、汉中、六角亭、汉正等11个行政街道，130个社区居民委员会和1个村民委员会，常住人口86.49万人。 . 4 January 2017. 24 December 2017.
Web site: http://www.xzqh.org/html/show/hb/15270.html . zh:硚口区历史沿革 . Historical Development of Qiaokou District . zh . 行政区划网站 (XZQH) . Chinese: 2010年第六次人口普查，硚口区常住总人口829665人，其中：易家墩街道86627人，韩家墩街道94340人，宗关街道64649人，汉水桥街道71776人，宝丰街道56647人，荣华街道50592人，崇仁街道36025人，汉中街道29597人，汉正街道113975人，六角亭街道46285人，长丰街道179152人。. 7 July 2014. 24 December 2017.
(Area numbers taken from the first line of each individual page about the subdistricts.)Web site: http://www.xzqh.org/html/list/2953.html . zh:首页湖北省武汉市硚口区. zh-hans. XZQH.org . 7 July 2014. 24 December 2017.
Web site: http://www.qiaokou.gov.cn/qkgk/qknj/2016/2016wen.pdf . zh:《硚口年鉴》（2016年卷） . 2016 Qiaokou Almanac . zh-Hans, en . Qiaokou District People's Government . 235 . Chinese: 易家街辖区{.... 12 December 2016. 24 December 2017.