As of August 2021, Wuhan has 13 administrative districts, including Jiangan District, Jianghan District, _Kou District, Hanyang District, Wuchang District, Qingshan District, Hongshan District, Caidian District, Jiangxia District, Huangpi District, Xinzhou District, East and West Lake District, and Hannan District.

Wuhan, referred to as "Han", also known as Jiangcheng, is the capital of Hubei Province, the only sub-provincial city in the six central provinces, megacities, central China's central city, the country's important industrial bases, science and education bases and comprehensive transportation hub, the Joint Logistics Force organs.

Wuhan is located in the eastern part of the Jianghan Plain, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River and its largest tributary, the Hanjiang River, converge in the city, forming the pattern of the three towns of Wuhan (Wuchang, Hankou, Hanyang) across the river, the city of rivers, lakes and harbors are intertwined, and the area of the city's total area of one-fourth of the water.

As the economic and geographic center of China, Wuhan is known as the "Thoroughfare of Nine Provinces", and is the largest inland land, water and air transportation hub and the shipping center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, with a high-speed rail network that radiates to half of China, and is the only city in Central China with direct flights to all five continents of the world.