PUKOU DISTRICT

Pukou (浦口), Jiangsu, China a city district of the City of Nanjing directly northwest across the Yangtze River from Nanjing.
Formerly the city at the southern terminus of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway. Railcars had to be ferried aross the river until it was bridged in 1968.
This district was the birthplace of celebrated Chinese historian Sima Qian in c.1213 AD.