"Wu-han" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1948 March, W. Robert Moore, “Along the Yangtze, Main Street of China”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume XCIII, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 341",
          "text": "At the moment much industry of the Wu-han Cities is at a standstill.",
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          "ref": "1965, James Cameron, Here is Your Enemy, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17",
          "text": "My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.",
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          "ref": "1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192",
          "text": "Logically, coal should have been imported from the P’ing-ting-shan mine which is far closer to the Wu-han market.",
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          "ref": "1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1",
          "text": "The population is mostly concentrated in the eastern lowlands where the Han river joins the Yangtze at the great tri-city metropolis of Wu-han (q.v.).",
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          "ref": "1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities), Central Intelligence Agency, page 2",
          "text": "The Wu-han cities are physically separated by the rivers: Han-k'ou and Han-yang are located on the left bank of the Yangtze and north and south of the Han Shui, respectively; Wu-ch'ang lies on the right bank of the Yangtze.",
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