China
South-central China
Hunan

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 He Long Stadium and Hunan Museum.

Stadium
Photo: Calton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The at the He Long Sports Centre is a multi-purpose stadium in Changsha, province, . It is named after Marshal He Long, who was born in the same province and a dedicated supporter of the Chinese "Three Major Ball Games".

Museum
Photo: Siyuwj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the provincial of , . It was built in 1951 and opened to the public in July 1956. It is located in the provincial capital Changsha at No.

Hospital
The , full name of Central South University, located in Changsha, Hunan Province of China, is a Class III Grade A hospital directly under the management of the National Health Commission.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wangyuehu and Zuojiatang.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Yuelu District in Changsha, , China. The subdistrict has an area of 1.57 square kilometres with a permanent population of about 52,000. The subdistrict has six communities under its jurisdiction.

Suburb
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is an urban subdistrict, located on the northwest of Yuhua District in Changsha City, , China. The subdistrict has borders with Shazitang Subdistrict to the south, Gaoqiao Subdistrict to the east, Wenyilu Subdistrict of Furong District to the north, and Dingwangtai and Wenyilu Subdistricts of Tianxin District to the west.

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
28.1988° or 28° 11′ 56″ north
Longitude
112.9709° or 112° 58′ 15″ east
Population
5,290,000
Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)
IATA airport code
CSX
United Nations Location Code
CN CSH
Open location code
7PWJ5XXC+G8
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: “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”
  • 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”
  • “长沙”

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