Wuhu (Chinese 蕪湖 市 / 芜湖 市, pinyin Wuhu Shì, literally "weeds overgrown lake") is a prefecture-level city of about 3,840,000 inhabitants (end of 2011) and an area of ​​5,988 square kilometers in the southeastern Chinese province of Anhui, some 360 ​​kilometers west of Shanghai and 90 kilometers from Nanjing. The nearest big city is Ma'anshan, in the north.