Shaoyang
Shaoyang, formerly named Baoqing, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It has a history of 2500 years and remains an important commercial and transportation city in Hunan.
- 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”, “ShaoYang”, “ShaoYang (HuNan)”, “Szaojang”, “Thiệu Dương, Hồ Nam”, “사오양”, and “宝庆”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shaoyang Railway Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhuangyuanzhou and Qichezhan.
Shaoyang
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Shaoyang County, Hunan, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
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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
UN/LOCODE
CN AOY
Open location code
7PVH6FV6+7X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “邵阳”
- Chinese: “邵阳市”
- 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: “邵陽市”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಯಾಂಗ್”
- Kikuyu: “Shaoyang”
- Korean: “사오양 시”
- 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”
- Portuguese: “Shaoyang”
- Russian: “Шаоян”
- Scots: “Shaoyang”
- Serbian: “Шаојанг”
- Sinhala: “ශෑඕයැන්ග්”
- Spanish: “Shaoyang”
- Swedish: “Shaoyang”
- Tamil: “ஷாவோயாங்”
- Telugu: “షాఓయాంగ్”
- Thai: “เช่าหยาง”
- Thai: “เซาหยาง”
- Turkish: “Shaoyang”
- Ukrainian: “Шаоян”
- Urdu: “شاویانگ”
- Venetian: “Shaoyang”
- Vietnamese: “Thiệu Dương”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shaoyang”
- Welsh: “Shaoyang”
- Wu Chinese: “邵阳”
- Yue Chinese: “邵陽”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Zhongxinlu and Chengbeilu.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: 邵阳市人民政府 and 邵阳市国防动员委员会.
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