China
South-central China
Jiangxi

Nanchang

Nanchang is the capital of Province and is the cultural, economic, and scientific center of Jiangxi. The city has deep ties to Chinese communist history, known as Heroes' City because it was here that the "first shots of the revolution were heard"; it's where the communist uprising of 1 August 1927 began.
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  • Type: City with 5,040,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Jiangxi province, China
  • Also known as: “Hong”, “Hongzhou”, “Hung”, “Hung-chou”, “Nan-ch’ang”, “Nan-ch’ang-hsien”, “Nan-ch’ang-shih”, “Nan-chang”, “Nanchang City”, “Nanchang Municipality”, “Nanchang Shi”, “Nanchang-fu”, “洪”, “洪城”, “洪都”, and “豫章”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pavilion of Prince Teng and Star of Nanchang.

Photo: BetacommandBot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a building in the North West of the city of Nanchang, in province, , on the east bank of the Gan River and is one of the Three Great Towers of southern China.

Ferris wheel
Photo: Saganaga, Public domain.
The is a 160-meter -tall Ferris wheel located in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang, the capital of . The opened for business in May 2006, having cost 57 million yuan to build.

Museum
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nanzhan.

Suburb
Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Nanchang

Latitude
28.6875° or 28° 41′ 15″ north
Longitude
115.854° or 115° 51′ 14″ east
Population
5,040,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
KHN
United Nations Location Code
CN NCH
Open location code
7PWQMVQ3+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081434
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1800163
Wiki­data ID
Q171943
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Nanchang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nanchang”
  • Afrikaans: “Nanchang”
  • Arabic: “نانتشانغ”
  • Armenian: “Նանչան”
  • Asturian: “Nanchang”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nançan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nançanq”
  • Balinese: “Nanchang”
  • Bashkir: “Наньчан”
  • Basque: “Nanchang”
  • Belarusian: “Наньчан”
  • Bengali: “নানছাং”
  • Breton: “Nanchang”
  • Bulgarian: “Нанчан”
  • Burmese: “နန်ချောင့်”
  • Burmese: “နန်ချောင့်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Nanchang”
  • Cebuano: “Nanchang Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Nanchang”
  • Chechen: “Наньчан”
  • Chinese: “Lâm-chhiong-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Nánchāng Shi”
  • Chinese: “南昌”
  • Chinese: “南昌市”
  • Chinese: “洪州”
  • Croatian: “Nanchang”
  • Czech: “Nan-čchang”
  • Danish: “Hongzhou”
  • Danish: “Nanchang”
  • Dutch: “Nan-Tsj’ang”
  • Dutch: “Nanchang”
  • Esperanto: “Nanĉango”
  • Esperanto: “Nanĉano”
  • Esperanto: “Nanchang”
  • Finnish: “Nanchang”
  • French: “Nan-Chang”
  • French: “Nan-tchan”
  • French: “Nan-tchang”
  • French: “Nanchang”
  • Gan Chinese: “南昌”
  • Gan Chinese: “南昌市”
  • German: “Nanchang”
  • Greek: “Ναντσάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “નંચંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nàm-chhông-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “נאנצ’אנג”
  • Hebrew: “נאנצאנג”
  • Hindi: “नानचांग”
  • Hungarian: “Nancsang”
  • Icelandic: “Nanchang”
  • Indonesian: “Nanchang”
  • Irish: “Nanchang”
  • Italian: “Nanchang”
  • Japanese: “南昌”
  • Japanese: “南昌市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nanchang”
  • Kannada: “ನಾಂಚಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Nanʹçan”
  • Kazakh: “Наньчан”
  • Kazakh: “نانتشان”
  • Kikuyu: “Nanchang”
  • Kirghiz: “Наньчан”
  • Kongo: “Nanchang”
  • Korean: “난창 시”
  • Korean: “난창”
  • Korean: “난창시”
  • Korean: “남창시”
  • Kurdish: “Nanchang”
  • Latin: “Nancianga”
  • Latin: “Nancianum”
  • Latvian: “Naņčana”
  • Literary Chinese: “南昌”
  • Literary Chinese: “南昌市”
  • Lithuanian: “Nančangas”
  • Lithuanian: “Nanchang”
  • Macedonian: “Нанчанг”
  • Malagasy: “Nanchang”
  • Malay: “Nanchang”
  • Maori: “Nanchang”
  • Marathi: “नानछांग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nàng-chiŏng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-chhiang-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-chhiang”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-chhiong-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ნანჩანი”
  • Nepali: “नानचाङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nanchang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nanchang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nanchang”
  • Norwegian: “Nanchang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nanchang”
  • Ossetian: “Наньчан”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਨਚਾਂਗ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਨਛਾਂਙ”
  • Persian: “نانچانگ”
  • Polish: “Nanchang”
  • Polish: “Nanczang”
  • Portuguese: “Nanchang”
  • Quechua: “Nanchang”
  • Russia Buriat: “Наньчан”
  • Russian: “Наньчан”
  • Scots: “Nanchang”
  • Serbian: “Нанчанг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nanchang”
  • Silesian: “Nanchang”
  • Sindhi: “نينچينگ”
  • Sinhala: “නැන්චැන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Nan-čchang”
  • Slovenian: “Nančang”
  • Slovenian: “Nanchang”
  • Spanish: “Nanchang”
  • Swahili: “Nanchang”
  • Swedish: “Nanchang”
  • Tagalog: “Nanchang”
  • Tamil: “நன்சாங்”
  • Telugu: “నాన్ చాంగ్”
  • Thai: “หนานชาง”
  • Turkish: “Nançang”
  • Turkish: “Nanchang”
  • Uighur: “Nenchang shehiri”
  • Uighur: “نەنچاڭ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Наньчан”
  • Urdu: “نانچانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Nanchan”
  • Venetian: “Nanchang”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Xương”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nanchang”
  • Welsh: “Nanchang”
  • Western Panjabi: “نانچانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “南昌市”
  • Yue Chinese: “南昌”
  • Zhuang: “Nanzcangh”

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