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Guanggu 4th Road station

Metro station in Wuhan, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ59711075 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guanggu 4th Road Station (Chinese: 光谷四路站) is a station on Line 11 of the Wuhan Metro. It entered revenue service on October 1, 2018. It is located in Hongshan District.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Guanggu 4th Road station” as metro station in Wuhan, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Guanggu, Road and station.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Guanggu, Road and station providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Guanggu 4th Road station”, the useful work is to connect “metro station in Wuhan, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q59711075. Authority coordinates are 30.492, 114.486. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Guanggu 4th Road station primary sources, Guanggu 4th Road station archive and Guanggu research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guanggu 4th Road station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.