South-central China
Hunan
Shaoyang County

Shaoyang

Shaoyang, formerly named Baoqing, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern province, China, bordering to the south. It has a history of 2500 years and remains an important commercial and transportation city in Hunan.
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  • Type: City with 7,070,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Hunan, China
  • Also known as: “Baoqing”, “Pao-ch’ing”, “Pao-ch’ing-hsien-ch’eng”, “Pao-king-fu”, “Paoking”, “Paoking-hsien”, “Shao-yang-ch’eng”, “Shao-yang-hsien”, “Shao-yang-shih”, and “ShaoYang”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shaoyang Railway Station.

Railway station
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is a railway station, located in the Daxiang District, Shaoyang, , People's Republic of China. Shaoyang is also served by Shaoyang North railway station, though it is much further away from the urban area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chengnan and Zhuangyuanzhou.

Suburb
Chennan Subdistrict is a subdistrict and the seat of Daxiang District in Shaoyang prefecture-level City, , . The subdistrict has an area of 55.02 km2 with a population of 80,300.

Suburb
is a subdistrict and the seat of Beita District in Shaoyang prefecture-level City, , . The subdistrict has an area of 22.7 km2 with a population of 68,300.

Suburb
is a subdistrict and the seat of Shuangqing District in Shaoyang prefecture-level City, , . It was one of six urban subdistricts. The subdistrict has an area of 4.5 km2 with a population of 43,183.

Shaoyang

Latitude
27.2432° or 27° 14′ 35″ north
Longitude
111.4625° or 111° 27′ 45″ east
Population
7,070,000
Elevation
243 metres (797 feet)
IATA airport codes
SYG and WGN
United Nations Location Code
CN AOY
Open location code
7PVH6FV6+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081610
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1816920
Wiki­data ID
Q194531
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shaoyang” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Shaoyang”
  • Afrikaans: “Sjaoyang”
  • Arabic: “شاويانغ”
  • Asturian: “Shaoyang”
  • Basque: “Shaoyang”
  • Belarusian: “Шааян”
  • Bengali: “শাওইয়াং”
  • Bulgarian: “Шаоян”
  • Catalan: “Shaoyang”
  • Cebuano: “Shaoyang”
  • Chinese: “Shàoyáng Shì”
  • Chinese: “Siāu-iông-chhī”
  • Chinese: “宝庆”
  • Chinese: “邵阳”
  • Chinese: “邵阳市”
  • Chinese: “邵陽”
  • Chinese: “邵陽市”
  • Czech: “Šao-jang”
  • Danish: “Shaoyang”
  • Dutch: “Shaoyang”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝaojan”
  • Finnish: “Shaoyang”
  • French: “Shaoyang”
  • Gan Chinese: “邵阳市”
  • Georgian: “შაოიანგი”
  • Georgian: “შაოიანი”
  • German: “Shaoyang”
  • Greek: “Σαογιάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “શાઓયાંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chàu-yòng-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “שאו-יאנג”
  • Hindi: “शाओयांग”
  • Hungarian: “Saojang”
  • Indonesian: “Shaoyang”
  • Irish: “Shaoyang”
  • Italian: “Shaoyang”
  • Japanese: “邵陽”
  • Japanese: “邵陽市”
  • Kannada: “ಶಾಯಾಂಗ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Shaoyang”
  • Korean: “사오양 시”
  • Korean: “사오양”
  • Korean: “사오양시”
  • Kurdish: “Shaoyang”
  • Latvian: “Šaojanga”
  • Lithuanian: “Šaojangas”
  • Malagasy: “Shaoyang”
  • Malay: “Shaoyang”
  • Marathi: “शाओयांग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Siêu-iòng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Siāu-iông-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shaoyang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shaoyang”
  • Norwegian: “Shaoyang”
  • Pampanga: “Shaoyang”
  • Persian: “شاویانگ”
  • Polish: “Shaoyang”
  • Polish: “Szaojang”
  • Portuguese: “Shaoyang”
  • Russian: “Шаоян”
  • Scots: “Shaoyang”
  • Serbian: “Шаојанг”
  • Sinhala: “ශෑඕයැන්ග්”
  • Spanish: “Baoqing”
  • Spanish: “ShaoYang (HuNan)”
  • Spanish: “Shaoyang”
  • Swedish: “Shaoyang”
  • Tamil: “ஷாவோயாங்”
  • Telugu: “షాఓయాంగ్”
  • Thai: “เช่าหยาง”
  • Thai: “เซาหยาง”
  • Turkish: “Shaoyang”
  • Ukrainian: “Шаоян”
  • Urdu: “شاویانگ”
  • Venetian: “Shaoyang”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiệu Dương, Hồ Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiệu Dương”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shaoyang”
  • Welsh: “Shaoyang”
  • Wu Chinese: “邵阳”
  • Yue Chinese: “邵陽”

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