Changsha

Changsha is the capital of Province in . A modern city center with skyscrapers, shopping malls and walking streets invites for relaxed strolls.
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  • Type: City with 5,290,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Hunan province, China
  • Also known as: Ch’ang-sha”, “Ch’ang-sha Shih”, “Ch’ang-sha-hsien”, “Ch’ang-sha-shih”, “Ch’ing-yang”, “Chang-sha”, “Chang-sha Shih”, “Changsha City”, “Changsha Shi”, “Changsha, China”, “Changsha, Hunan”, “Ching-yang”, “Lin-hsiang”, “Linxiang”, “Qingyang”, “T’an”, “T’an-chou”, “Tan”, and “Tanzhou
Photo: Zhangmoon618, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bafangshan Railway Station and Liugoulong.

Railway station

Metro station
station is a subway interchange station in Changsha, , China, operated by the Changsha subway operator Changsha Metro.

Metro station
station is an interchange station for Changsha Metro Line 4 and Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan intercity railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wangchengpo and Wangyue Subdistrict.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Yuelu District in Changsha, the capital of , China. It was formed in 1998. The subdistrict has an area of 4.96 square kilometres with a permanent population of about 80,000.

Suburb
is an urban subdistrict and the seat of Yuelu District in Changsha, , China. The subdistrict is located in the north eastern part of the district; it is bordered to the north by of Wangcheng District…

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Yuelu District in Changsha, , China. It was formed in 1998. The subdistrict has an area of about 10 square kilometres with a population of about 46,000.

Changsha

Latitude
28.2312° or 28° 13′ 52″ north
Longitude
112.9335° or 112° 56′ 0″ east
Population
5,290,000
Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)
IATA airport code
CSX
United Nations Location Code
CN CSH
Open location code
7PWJ6WJM+F9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2277730366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1815577
Wiki­data ID
Q174091
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Changsha” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Changsha
  • Afrikaans: Changsha
  • Afrikaans: Changsja
  • Arabic: تشانغشا
  • Armenian: Չանշա
  • Asturian: Changsha
  • 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: Tn̂g-soa-chhī
  • Chinese: 临湘
  • Chinese:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: ಚಂಗ್ಷಾ
  • Kannada: ಚಾಂಗ್‍ಷಾ
  • Kikuyu: Changsha
  • Kirghiz: Чанша
  • Kongo: Changsha
  • Korean: 창사 시
  • Korean: 창사시
  • Kurdish: Changsha
  • Latin: Changsha
  • Latin: Changxa
  • Latvian: Čanša
  • Literary Chinese: 長沙市
  • Lithuanian: Čangša
  • 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
  • Ossetian: Чанша
  • Pampanga: Changsha
  • Panjabi: ਚਾਂਗਸ਼ਾ
  • Panjabi: ਛਾਂਙਸ਼ਾ
  • Persian: چانگشا
  • Polish: Changsha
  • Portuguese: Changsha
  • Quechua: Changsha
  • Romanian: Changsha
  • Russia Buriat: Чанша
  • Russian: Чанша
  • Scots: Changsha
  • Serbian: Чангша
  • Serbo-Croatian: Changsha
  • Sinhala: චන්ග්ෂා
  • Slovak: Čchang-ša
  • Slovenian: Čangša
  • Spanish: Changsha
  • Swahili: Changsha
  • Swedish: Changsha Shi
  • Swedish: Changsha
  • Tagalog: Changsha
  • Tamil: சாங்ஷா
  • Telugu: చాంగ్షా
  • Thai: ฉางชา
  • Turkish: Çangşa
  • 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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