Hongshan District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13
districts of
Wuhan, the capital of
Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It is the most populous of all the districts, and is the most spacious but least densely populated among the city's seven core districts. On the right bank of the Yangtze, it borders the districts of
Wuchang and
Qingshan to the north; on the opposite bank it borders, from west to east,
Caidian,
Hanyang,
Jiang'an,
Huangpi, and
Xinzhou. The district also borders the
prefecture-level city of
Ezhou.