Wuhu (; literally "Weedy Lake") is a
prefecture-level city in southeastern
Anhui province,
People's Republic of China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the
Yangtze River, Wuhu borders
Xuancheng to the southeast,
Chizhou and
Tongling to the southwest,
Hefei to the northwest,
Ma'anshan to the northeast, and the province of
Jiangsu to the east, and is approximately southwest of
Nanjing. Its population was 3,545,067 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 1,264,539 in the built-up (
or metro) area made of 3 out of 4 urban districts (
all but Sanshan not yet continuously urbanized).