Changde
Changde is a city in Hunan. The Changde Poetry Wall, covered in a variety of poems mostly from ancient China, stretches for 3 km along the Yuan River downtown and functions as a flood wall.
- Type: City with 5,720,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Hunan, China
- Also known as: “Ch’ang-te”, “Ch’ang-te Chuan-ch’u”, “Ch’ang-te Shih”, “Ch’ang-te Ti-ch’u”, “Ch’ang-te-ch’eng”, “Ch’ang-te-hsien”, “Ch’ang-te-shih”, “Changde Diqu”, “Changde Shi”, “Changteh-hsien”, “Wuling”, and “চাংদে”
- Historically known as: “Changteh”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Iron Sutra Column in Changde.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chengbei Subdistrict and Nanpinggang.
Changde
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Changde Shi, Hunan, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.0346° or 29° 2′ 4″ north
Longitude
111.6929° or 111° 41′ 34″ east
Population
5,720,000
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
IATA airport code
CGD
UN/LOCODE
CN CGD
Open location code
7PXH2MMV+R4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Changde” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Changde”
- Arabic: “تشانغده”
- Asturian: “Changde”
- Basque: “Changde”
- Belarusian: “Чандэ”
- Bengali: “ছাংতে”
- Bulgarian: “Чандъ”
- Catalan: “Changde”
- Cebuano: “Changde (kapital sa gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Changde”
- Chinese: “Chángdé Shì”
- Chinese: “常德”
- Chinese: “常德市”
- Czech: “Čchang-te”
- Danish: “Changde”
- Dutch: “Changde”
- Esperanto: “Ĉande”
- Esperanto: “Changde”
- Finnish: “Changde”
- French: “Changde”
- Gan Chinese: “常德市”
- German: “Changde”
- Greek: “Τσανγκντέ”
- Gujarati: “ચાંગડે”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sòng-tet-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “צ’אנגדה”
- Hindi: “चांगदे”
- Hungarian: “Csangtö”
- Indonesian: “Changde”
- Irish: “Changde”
- Italian: “Changde”
- Japanese: “常徳”
- Japanese: “常徳市”
- Kannada: “ಚಂದ್ಡೆ”
- Kikuyu: “Changde”
- Korean: “창더 시”
- Korean: “창더시”
- Kurdish: “Changde”
- Latvian: “Čande”
- Lithuanian: “Čangdė”
- Malagasy: “Changde”
- Malay: “Changde”
- Marathi: “चांग्दे”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Siòng-dáik”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siông-tek-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Changde”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Changde”
- Norwegian: “Changde”
- Pampanga: “Changde”
- Persian: “چانگدی”
- Polish: “Changde”
- Portuguese: “Changde”
- Russian: “Чандэ”
- Scots: “Changde”
- Serbian: “Чангде”
- Sinhala: “චන්ග්ඩේ”
- Spanish: “Changde”
- Swedish: “Changde”
- Tamil: “சாங்டே”
- Telugu: “చాంగ్డే”
- Thai: “ฉางเต๋อ”
- Turkish: “Changde”
- Ukrainian: “Чанде”
- Urdu: “چانگدا”
- Uzbek: “Changde”
- Venetian: “Changde”
- Vietnamese: “Thường Đức”
- Waray (Philippines): “Changde”
- Welsh: “Changde”
- Wu Chinese: “常德”
- Yue Chinese: “常德”
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