East Lake (Wuhan)

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East Lake
Dong Hu
东湖 (Chinese)
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Location	Wuchang District and Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei
Coordinates	30°33′30″N 114°24′00″E / 30.5583°N 114.4000°E / 30.5583; 114.4000
Part of	Yangtze River Basin
Basin countries	China
Surface elevation	10 metres (33 ft)
Islands	Luzhou (芦洲)

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.

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.