Changsha

Changsha is the capital of in . It is famous in China due to the historical events, e.g. 4 times of battles in Changsha during Sino-Japanese War, Fire of Changsha in 1938, and place where Mao Zedong studied.
  • City with about 10,000,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 60 metres (210 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code CSX
  • Description: capital of Hunan province, China
  • Also known as
    “Ch’ang-sha-hsien”
    “Ch’ang-sha-shih”
    “Ch’ing-yang”
    “Changsha City”
    “Changsha Shi”
    “Changsha, China”
    “Changsha, Hunan”
    “Lin-hsiang”
    “Linxiang”
    “Qingyang”
    “T’an”
    “T’an-chou”
    “Tanzhou”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include He Long Stadium and Hunan Museum.
Stadium
The at the He Long Sports Centre…
The is the provincial of , .
Library
The is a provincial comprehensive public…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Orange Isle and Wangyuehu.
Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Yuelu District in Changsha, , China.
is an urban subdistrict, located on the…
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Latitude
28.2001° or 28° 12′ 1″ north
Longitude
112.9717° or 112° 58′ 18″ east
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Open location code
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Changsha” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Changsha”
  • Afrikaans: “Changsha”
  • Afrikaans: “Changsja”
  • Amharic: “ቻንግሻ”
  • Arabic: “تشانغشا”
  • Armenian: “Չանշա”
  • Asturian: “Changsha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çangşa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çansa”
  • Balinese: “Changsha”
  • Basque: “Changsha”
  • Belarusian: “Чанша”
  • Bengali: “চাংশা”
  • Bengali: “চ্যাংশা”
  • Bengali: “ছাংশা শি”
  • Bengali: “ছাংশা”
  • Breton: “Changsha”
  • Bulgarian: “Чанша”
  • Burmese: “ချန်ဆားမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ချန်းရှားမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ချောင်ရှားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Changsha”
  • Cebuano: “Changsha (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Changsha Shi”
  • Chechen: “Чанша”
  • Chinese: “Chángshā Shì”
  • Chinese: “临湘”
  • Chinese: “潭”
  • Chinese: “潭州”
  • Chinese: “臨湘”
  • Chinese: “長沙”
  • Chinese: “長沙市”
  • Chinese: “长沙”
  • Chinese: “长沙市”
  • Chinese: “青阳”
  • Chinese: “青陽”
  • Croatian: “Changsha”
  • Czech: “Čchang-ša”
  • Danish: “Changsha”
  • Dutch: “Changsha”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉangŝa”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉangŝao”
  • Estonian: “Changsha Shi”
  • Faroese: “Changsha”
  • Finnish: “Changsha”
  • French: “Changsha”
  • French: “Tchan-Cha”
  • French: “Tchang-cha”
  • Galician: “Changsha”
  • Gan Chinese: “長沙”
  • Gan Chinese: “长沙市”
  • Georgian: “ჩანშა”
  • German: “Changsha”
  • Greek: “Τσανγκσά”
  • Gujarati: “ચાંગશા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chhòng-sâ-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Changsha”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אנגשה”
  • Hebrew: “צ’נגשה”
  • Hindi: “चांगशा”
  • Hungarian: “Csangsa”
  • Icelandic: “Changsha”
  • Indonesian: “Changsha”
  • Irish: “Changsha”
  • Italian: “Changsha”
  • Japanese: “長沙市”
  • Javanese: “Changsha”
  • Kannada: “ಚಂಗ್ಶಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಾಂಗ್ಷಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “چھَنٛگشا”
  • Kazakh: “Чанша”
  • Kikuyu: “Changsha”
  • Kirghiz: “Чанша”
  • Kongo: “Changsha”
  • Korean: “창사 시”
  • Kurdish: “Changsha”
  • Latin: “Changsha”
  • Latin: “Changxa”
  • Latvian: “Čanša”
  • Literary Chinese: “長沙市”
  • Lithuanian: “Čangša”
  • Luxembourgish: “Changsha”
  • Macedonian: “Чангша”
  • Malagasy: “Changsha”
  • Malay: “Changsha”
  • Marathi: “छांग्षा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Diòng-să”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tn̂g-soa-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩანშა-ში”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩანშა”
  • Mongolian: “Чанша”
  • Nepali: “चाङ्सा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Changsha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Changsha”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Changsha”
  • Norwegian: “Changsha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Changsha”
  • Oriya: “ଚାଙ୍ଗସା”
  • Oromo: “Changsha”
  • Ossetian: “Чанша”
  • Pampanga: “Changsha”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਾਂਗਸ਼ਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਛਾਂਙਸ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “چانگشا”
  • Polish: “Changsha”
  • Portuguese: “Changsha”
  • Pushto: “چانگ شا”
  • Quechua: “Changsha”
  • Romanian: “Changsha”
  • Russia Buriat: “Чанша”
  • Russian: “Чанша”
  • Scots: “Changsha”
  • Serbian: “Чангша”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Changsha”
  • Silesian: “Changsha”
  • Sinhala: “චන්ග්ෂා”
  • Slovak: “Čchang-ša”
  • Slovenian: “Čangša”
  • Somali: “Changsha”
  • Spanish: “Changsha”
  • Swahili: “Changsha”
  • Swedish: “Changsha Shi”
  • Swedish: “Changsha”
  • Tagalog: “Changsha”
  • Tajik: “Чанша”
  • Tamil: “சாங்ஷா”
  • Tatar: “Чанша”
  • Telugu: “చాంగ్షా”
  • Thai: “ฉางชา”
  • Tulu: “ಚಾಂಗ್ಷಾ”
  • Turkish: “Çangşa”
  • Turkish: “Changsha”
  • Uighur: “چاڭشا شەھىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Чанша”
  • Urdu: “چانگشا”
  • Uzbek: “Changsha”
  • Uzbek: “Chansha”
  • Venetian: “Changsha”
  • Vietnamese: “Trường Sa, Hồ Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Trường Sa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Changsha”
  • Welsh: “Changsha”
  • Western Panjabi: “چانگشا”
  • Wu Chinese: “长沙”
  • Wu Chinese: “长沙市”
  • Yakut: “Чанша”
  • Yue Chinese: “長沙”
  • Yue Chinese: “長沙市”
  • Zhuang: “Cangzsa”
  • Zhuang: “Cangzsah”

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