On Chinese maps, the name "Wudangshan" () is applied both to the entire mountain range (which runs east-west along the southern edge of the Han River, crossing several county-level divisions of Shiyan), and to the small group of peaks located within Wudangshan subdistrict of Danjiangkou, Shiyan.
Some consider the Wudang Mountains to be a "branch" of the Daba Mountains range,[REF] which is a major mountain system of the western Hubei, Shaanxi, Chongqing and Sichuan.