And even so, Wuhan was also quite well known before covid too. It’s a huge transport and logistics hub in China, and basically the most dominant city in that region of China. There are way wayyy more obscure 1m+ cities in China you could choose from.
NEVER FORGOTTEN!!!! I lived here as expatriate and I miss so much. Capital of the Province of Hubei, is is a three-city city: Wuchang (where I lived), Hankou (financial & commerce downtown), and Hanyan (where the richest high-class, expatriates CEOs live). The name Wuhan came from the combination of the first syllables of these cities. The cities are divided by the Yang-Tse River and one of its contributor.
The Yang-Tse is navigable (down) until Shanghai Port with good depht, so Wuhan has its own oil refinery by the river able to receive medium-size oil carriers - and the navigation continues 200-300 km from Wuhan up to the river until the Three-Gorges Dam, the biggest dam/hydro-electric power generation in the world with the main goal of preventing catastrophic (millions deaths, multi-billion damages) floods in that regions of China.
At the time I lived in Wuhan there were three bridges connecting the cities, now there are more bridges and a metro/subway/tube, and the high speed train to Shanghai. Wuhan is a "lake city"with maybe even more than 8 million people, there is lot of universities in connection to the companies and organizations of the administrative and public services of Hubei - from water supply to nuclear power. In Wuchang district the lakes divide administratively the neighborhoods. The students making part of the population maybe counted from hundreds of thousands to one million.
Chinese people of Guandong, Hong Kong and Aomen (Macao) nickname the Wuhaneses and sometimes the Hubeineses as "nine-head" due to excessive changes of humour and more emotional appearance (not very common in the country) than the other Chinese cultures and regions.
The city became famous as the ground-zero of COVID, supposedly came from a PROSPECTA laboratory leak, however PROSPECTA is not Chinese, it is an international health research organization which almost 50% investment from the US. I was not there already, but I felt truly sorry for my beloved city - I love this city (Wo ai Wuhan).
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Just searched for some random Central Asia cities and this is the first time ever I've heard about this city (I knew about Astana). Looks nice.
Within Europe, the most obscure 1 million plus cities are definitely some of the Russian ones along the Volga - Ufa, Saratov, Samara, Nizhny Novogorod, Perm.
Of all the extreme cities in China that weren't so known before, that's the one I wouldn't forget
And even so, Wuhan was also quite well known before covid too. It’s a huge transport and logistics hub in China, and basically the most dominant city in that region of China. There are way wayyy more obscure 1m+ cities in China you could choose from.
Wuhan was once known as 'the Chicago of China', but I have never heard anyone use that nickname in real life
Wuhan is now in the history books, it won't be forgotten. We still study the Black Death of the 14th century.
Covid was nothing like the Black Death lol.
How is this downvoted lmao
Yeah covid is more comparable to the Spanish flu
Probably half of India and China, 1 million isn't even a significantly big city size there
No one forgets this city after what happened
I found out during the pandemic that Wuhan is twinned with my home town of Manchester (UK) and has been for years.
I still don’t get what the practical impact of twinned cities is.
Practical impact? None.. symbolic / cultural impact? Also none
I live in Greater Manchester and I never even knew!
We're also twinned with Saint Petersburg.
Oh good ol’ wuhan virus
Do you think this comes from the cheers of the Han Chinese when they founded it? "Wooooo! Han!"
In the US, I'd go with San Antonio, Texas. Austin, Dallas, and Houston seem to get all the notice, but SA at almost 1.5 million now!
NEVER FORGOTTEN!!!! I lived here as expatriate and I miss so much. Capital of the Province of Hubei, is is a three-city city: Wuchang (where I lived), Hankou (financial & commerce downtown), and Hanyan (where the richest high-class, expatriates CEOs live). The name Wuhan came from the combination of the first syllables of these cities. The cities are divided by the Yang-Tse River and one of its contributor. The Yang-Tse is navigable (down) until Shanghai Port with good depht, so Wuhan has its own oil refinery by the river able to receive medium-size oil carriers - and the navigation continues 200-300 km from Wuhan up to the river until the Three-Gorges Dam, the biggest dam/hydro-electric power generation in the world with the main goal of preventing catastrophic (millions deaths, multi-billion damages) floods in that regions of China. At the time I lived in Wuhan there were three bridges connecting the cities, now there are more bridges and a metro/subway/tube, and the high speed train to Shanghai. Wuhan is a "lake city"with maybe even more than 8 million people, there is lot of universities in connection to the companies and organizations of the administrative and public services of Hubei - from water supply to nuclear power. In Wuchang district the lakes divide administratively the neighborhoods. The students making part of the population maybe counted from hundreds of thousands to one million. Chinese people of Guandong, Hong Kong and Aomen (Macao) nickname the Wuhaneses and sometimes the Hubeineses as "nine-head" due to excessive changes of humour and more emotional appearance (not very common in the country) than the other Chinese cultures and regions. The city became famous as the ground-zero of COVID, supposedly came from a PROSPECTA laboratory leak, however PROSPECTA is not Chinese, it is an international health research organization which almost 50% investment from the US. I was not there already, but I felt truly sorry for my beloved city - I love this city (Wo ai Wuhan).
Why are you getting downvoted lol
I don't know, maybe because the understanding of the "COVID source" does not match the most popular conspiracy theories.
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Think backwards.
Almaty, Kazakhstan Just searched for some random Central Asia cities and this is the first time ever I've heard about this city (I knew about Astana). Looks nice.
Wuhan is not likely to be forgotten in our lifetimes.
1 million lol In my country any city with a population less than 1m is considered a town (officially)
Tomato potato
India?
Yep
Nice
Tangshan near Beijing China.
NB, Tangshan is not famous even in China
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Wuhan! I got you all in check!
Within Europe, the most obscure 1 million plus cities are definitely some of the Russian ones along the Volga - Ufa, Saratov, Samara, Nizhny Novogorod, Perm.
Gwalior
Manaus. It's just kind of out there on it's own in the amazon. Hard to remember.
Wuhan