Changsha
Changsha is the capital of Hunan in South-central China. 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”
Places of Interest
Highlights include He Long Stadium and Hunan Museum.
Hunan Museum
The Hunan Museum is the provincial museum of Hunan, China.
Hunan Library
Library
The Hunan Library is a provincial comprehensive public…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orange Isle and Wangyuehu.
Orange Isle
Orange Isle is an isle in Xiang River, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Changsha
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Latitude
28.2001° or 28° 12′ 1″ north
Longitude
112.9717° or 112° 58′ 18″ east
UN/LOCODE
CN CSH
Open location code
7PWJ6X2C+3M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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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