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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.). This major industrial and commercial centre had a population of 2,146,000 in 1957, with the heavier concentration in Hankow, the most important city in central China. The first bridge over the Yangtze, constructed there in 1956, permits through traffic from Peking to Canton. Commercially, Wu-han (Hankow, Wu-ch'ang and Han-yang) municipality commands the gateway to the Szechwan basin in the west and to Hunan and Kweichow in the south and southwest. Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad. Across the Han river bridge from Hankow is the heavy-industry centre of Han-yang. From the latter runs the great bridge across the Yangtze joining Hankow and the provincial seat of Wu-ch'ang.