Ezhou

Ezhou is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hubei Province, China. As of the 2010 statistics, the city had a populace of 1,048,668, of which 668,727 lived in the center Echeng District. The Ezhou Huanggang developed region was home to 1,035,496 occupants from the Echeng and Huangzhou, Huanggang Districts. Ezhou lies on the southern bank of the Yangtze River east of the southern segment of Wuchang, over the stream from the city of Huanggang, to which it is associated by the Ehuang Bridge. Sandwiched between the urban communities of Wuhan and Huangshi, Ezhou has a generally little region of 1,504 square kilometers.

There are numerous lakes in Ezhou, incorporating the Liangzi Lake in Liangzihu District and Yanglan Lake, alongside in excess of 133 lakes and pools. The city is the beginning of Wuchang Bream and subsequently is nicknamed "City of one hundred lakes" and "The place where there is fish and rice". The name "Ezhou" dates to the Han Dynasty and gets from the adjacent old Zhou Dynasty vassal State of E. Despite the fact that the authoritative seat of the city changed a few times, the name stayed unaltered until the Three Kingdoms period at which time it turned into the capital of the territory of Eastern Wu governed by Sun Quan and was renamed "Wuchang".