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South-central China

Hunan

Hunan is an inland province in . Located in the middle reaches of the watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of to the north, to the east, and to the south, and and to the northwest.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Changsha and Zhangjiajie.

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is the capital of Hunan Province in . A modern city center with skyscrapers, shopping malls and walking streets invites for relaxed strolls.

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is a small provincial city in northwestern Hunan Province, . It is significant for its proximity to and .

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, known as Jianning in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city of close to 4 million inhabitants in Hunan province. It is one of the core cities in the urban agglomeration and the city agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Wulingyuan and Yueyang.

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is a scenic and historical site in the District of 's Hunan Province. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992.

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is a historic port city in Hunan Province, China. It is renowned for its cultural heritage and stunning natural scenery, centered around the immense Dongting Lake and the iconic Tower.

is in the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River and to the south of in Hunan Province. is a historically significant city renowned as the 'Bright Pearl in Southern China'.

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is a city in Hunan. The 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.

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is a prefecture-level city in Hunan province, known as Lingling and Xiaoxiang, in the south of Hunan province, bordering Guangdong further south and Guangxi to the southwest.

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is in western Hunan, southwestern China. It is a prefecture-level city in a mountainous area with some rural poverty problems. The city has a population around 620,000, the prefecture as a whole has 5.2 million people.

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is a small city in China's Hunan province, famous for being the birthplace of leader and Chinese icon Mao Zedong.

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is a National Forest Park located in , Hunan, . It is one of the four scenic spots within the .

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is a scenic and historic mountain in National Park, , in northwestern Hunan Province, .

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is in Hunan, and is the capital of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. has little to offer the tourist, but it is the jumping off point for scenic spots like Dehang and .

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Hengshan, also known as , is a mountain in southcentral China's Hunan Province known as the southern mountain of the Five Great Mountains of China.

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is a well-preserved ancient town in western Hunan Province, about a half hour south of . It is the birthplace of author Shen Congwen 沈从文 and residence of artist Huang Yongyu 黄永玉.

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is in prefecture of western Hunan province. Located on the south western corner of Hunan province, Tongdao is immediately adjacent to the borders of the southeast of Guizhou and the north of Guangxi.

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County is a county of Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of . Located on the south margin of the province, it is bordered on the west by .
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Hunan

Latitude of center
27.6662° or 27° 39′ 58″ north
Longitude of center
111.7487° or 111° 44′ 55″ east
Population
66,400,000
Elevation
159 metres (522 feet)
Abbreviation
“湘”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080670
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1806691
Wiki­data ID
Q45761
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Hunan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Hunan”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Hunan”
  • Afrikaans: “Hunan”
  • Arabic: “خونان”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة خونان”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة هونان”
  • Armenian: “Հունան”
  • Asturian: “Hunan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xunan”
  • Balinese: “Hunan”
  • Basque: “Hunan”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Хунань”
  • Belarusian: “Хунань”
  • Bengali: “হুনান”
  • Breton: “Hunan”
  • Bulgarian: “Хунан”
  • Burmese: “ဟူနန်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Hunan”
  • Cebuano: “Hunan Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھونان”
  • Chechen: “Хунань”
  • Chinese: “CN-43”
  • Chinese: “Hunan Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Húnán shěng”
  • Chinese: “Húnán”
  • Chinese: “Ô͘-lâm-séng”
  • Chinese: “Xiāng”
  • Chinese: “湖南”
  • Chinese: “湖南省”
  • Chinese: “湘”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hunan”
  • Croatian: “Hunan”
  • Czech: “Chu-nan”
  • Czech: “Hunan”
  • Dagbani: “Hunan”
  • Danish: “Hunan”
  • Dutch: “Hoenan”
  • Dutch: “Hunan”
  • Esperanto: “Hunan”
  • Esperanto: “Hunano”
  • Estonian: “Hunan”
  • Finnish: “Hu’nan”
  • Finnish: “Hunan”
  • French: “Hou-nan”
  • French: “Hounan”
  • French: “Hunan”
  • French: “Húnán”
  • French: “Province de Hunan”
  • Galician: “Hunan”
  • Gan Chinese: “湖南”
  • Gan Chinese: “湖南省”
  • Georgian: “ხუნანი”
  • German: “Hunan”
  • Greek: “Χουνάν”
  • Gujarati: “હુનાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fù-nàm-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fù-nàm”
  • Hebrew: “הונאן”
  • Hebrew: “חונאן”
  • Hindi: “हुनान प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “हुनान”
  • Hindi: “हूनान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “हूनान”
  • Hungarian: “Hunan”
  • Hungarian: “Húnán”
  • Icelandic: “Hunan”
  • Ido: “Provinco Hunan”
  • Indonesian: “Hunan”
  • Interlingua: “Hunan”
  • Irish: “Hunan”
  • Italian: “Hunan”
  • Japanese: “フーナン”
  • Japanese: “湖南省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “湖南省”
  • Kannada: “ಹುನಾನ್”
  • Kongo: “Hunan”
  • Korean: “호남 성”
  • Korean: “호남성”
  • Korean: “후난 성”
  • Korean: “후난”
  • Korean: “후난성”
  • Kurdish: “Hunan”
  • Latin: “Hunan”
  • Latvian: “Hunan Sheng”
  • Latvian: “Hunan”
  • Latvian: “Hunaņa”
  • Latvian: “Hunaņas province”
  • Literary Chinese: “湖南省”
  • Lithuanian: “Chunano provincija”
  • Lithuanian: “Hunan”
  • Lithuanian: “Hunanas”
  • Lombard: “Hunan”
  • Macedonian: “Хунан”
  • Malagasy: “Hunan”
  • Malay: “Hunan”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hunan”
  • Malayalam: “ഹുനാൻ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯨꯅꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Hunan”
  • Marathi: “हूनान”
  • Mazanderani: “هونان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hù-nàng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘-lâm-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘-lâm”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ô·-lâm”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰუნანი”
  • Mongolian: “Хүнань муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хүнань”
  • Nepali: “हुनान”
  • Newari: “हुनान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hunan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hunan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Húnán”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hunan”
  • Norwegian: “Hunan”
  • Novial: “Hunan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hunan”
  • Ossetian: “Хунань”
  • Pampanga: “Hunan”
  • Persian: “هون‌آن”
  • Persian: “هونان”
  • Polish: “Hunan”
  • Portuguese: “Hunã”
  • Portuguese: “Hunan”
  • Portuguese: “Hunão”
  • Portuguese: “província de Hunan”
  • Quechua: “Hunan pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Hunan”
  • Russian: “Hunan”
  • Russian: “Хунань”
  • Scots: “Hunan”
  • Serbian: “Хунан”
  • Serbian: “湖南”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hunan”
  • Sindhi: “ھونان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හුනාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Hunan”
  • Spanish: “Hunan”
  • Spanish: “Hunán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Hunán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Hunán”
  • Swahili: “Hunan”
  • Swedish: “Hunan”
  • Tagalog: “Hunan”
  • Tajik: “Ҳунан”
  • Tamil: “ஹுனான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “ஹுனான்”
  • Telugu: “హునాన్”
  • Thai: “มณฑลหูหนาน”
  • Thai: “หูหนัน”
  • Thai: “หูหนาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཧུའུ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧུའུ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ནན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ནན།”
  • Turkish: “Hunan”
  • Uighur: “Xunen ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “خۇنەن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Хунань”
  • Ukrainian: “Хунань”
  • Urdu: “ہونان”
  • Uzbek: “Xunan”
  • Venetian: “Hunan”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Nam, Lê Chân”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Hồ Nam”
  • Walloon: “Hunan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hunan”
  • Welsh: “Hunan”
  • Western Armenian: “Յունան”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہنعان”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہونان”
  • Wu Chinese: “湖南”
  • Wu Chinese: “湖南省”
  • Yue Chinese: “湖南”
  • Yue Chinese: “湖南省”
  • Yue Chinese: “湘”
  • Yue Chinese: “湘省”
  • Zhuang: “Huznanz”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hunan”. Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.