Tag: Woosung (China)

Wikipedia says: Wusong, formerly romanized as Woosung, is a subdistrict of Baoshan in northern Shanghai. Prior to the city’s expansion, it was a separate port town located 14 miles (23 km) down the Huangpu River from Shanghai’s urban core.

Wusong is named for the Wusong River, a former name for Shanghai’s Suzhou Creek. Suzhou Creek is now a tributary to the Huangpu River, emptying into it in Puxi across from Lujiazui and just north of the Bund. The Huangpu had previously been a tributary to the Wusong, but the two reversed their importance when a flood caused it to gain a number of the Wusong’s former tributaries. The location where the Huangpu and Wusong meet was generally known as Wusongkou (“mouth of the Wusong”). As a result of an American railroader visiting the area in his sea captain days, it would also become the namesake for an unincorporated community in southwestern Ogle County, Illinois, northwest of Dixon.