What is Xuanwu District?
'''Xuanwu District''' is a [[districts of China|district]] of [[Nanjing]], [[China]]. About 625,000 people live there. Its name comes from [[Xuanwu Gate]], the north gate of the [[Nanjing City Walls|old city walls]]. Xuanwu District is in central Nanjing. When Nanjing was the [[capital city]] of [[China]] in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Xuanwu District was the place with China's [[Capitol building|capitol]] and [[Nanjing Presidential Palace|its presidential palace]]. It is still the home of [[Nanjing People's Government|Nanjing's city government]]. As the central area of Nanjing, Xuanwu is home to many important places. Some of the most important are [[Xuanwu Lake]], the [[Nanjing Presidential Palace|old presidential palace]] and [[Nanjing City Walls|city wall]], [[Sun Yat-sen's Tomb]] and the [[Ming Tombs]], and [[Purple Mountain]]. Its many schools include [[Southwest University]], [[Nanjing Agricultural University]], [[Nanjing Forestry University]], the [[Nanjing University of Science and Technology]], the [[Chinese Academy of Engineering]], and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]]. [[Category:Nanjing]]