South-central China
Hunan
Xiangtan

Shaoshan

Shaoshan is a small city in China's province, famous for being the birthplace of leader and Chinese icon Mao Zedong.
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  • Type: City with 41,100 residents
  • Description: county-level city
  • Also known as: “Shaoshan City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shaoshan.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shaoshan and Qingxi.

Town
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Township is a rural township in City, , China. It is surrounded by on the northeast, on the south, and and on the west.

Town
Town is an urban town in and subdivision of Shaoshan, , China. As of the 2015 census it had a population of 48,500 and an area of 71.16 square kilometres.

Village
Town is an urban town in Shaoshan City, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, China. It borders to the northeast, to the south, to the west, and and to the east.

Shaoshan

Latitude
27.9183° or 27° 55′ 6″ north
Longitude
112.5217° or 112° 31′ 18″ east
Population
41,100
Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)
Open location code
7PVJWG9C+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5795016501
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1795860
Wiki­data ID
Q838542
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Shaoshan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شاوشان”
  • Armenian: “Շաոշան”
  • Asturian: “Shaoshan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şaoşan”
  • Bengali: “শাওশান”
  • Burmese: “ရှောက်စန်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Shaoshan”
  • Chinese: “Siâu-san-chhī”
  • Chinese: “韶山”
  • Chinese: “韶山冲”
  • Chinese: “韶山市”
  • Chinese: “韶山沖”
  • Czech: “Šao-šan”
  • Danish: “Shaoshan”
  • Dutch: “Shaoshan”
  • Finnish: “Shaoshan”
  • French: “Shaoshan”
  • Gan Chinese: “韶山市”
  • German: “Shaoshan”
  • Greek: “Σαοσάν”
  • Gujarati: “શાઓશાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Shâu-sân-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “שאושאן (סין)”
  • Hebrew: “שאושאן”
  • Hindi: “शाओशान”
  • Hungarian: “Saosan”
  • Indonesian: “Shaoshan”
  • Irish: “Shaoshan”
  • Italian: “Shaoshan”
  • Japanese: “韶山市”
  • Kannada: “ಶಾವೋಷಾನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Shaoshan”
  • Korean: “사오산시”
  • Kurdish: “Shaoshan”
  • Latvian: “Šaošana”
  • Lithuanian: “Šaošanas”
  • Malagasy: “Shaoshan”
  • Malay: “Shaoshan”
  • Marathi: “शाओशान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Siâu-san-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shaoshan”
  • Norwegian: “Shaoshan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Shaoshan”
  • Pampanga: “Shaoshan”
  • Polish: “Shaoshan”
  • Portuguese: “Shaoshan”
  • Russian: “Шаошань”
  • Scots: “Shaoshan”
  • Serbian: “Шаошан”
  • Sinhala: “ෂාඕශාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Šaošan”
  • Spanish: “Shaoshan”
  • Swedish: “Shaoshan”
  • Tagalog: “Shaoshan”
  • Tamil: “ஷொஷான்”
  • Tatar: “Шаушән”
  • Telugu: “షావోషన్”
  • Thai: “เซียงถาน”
  • Turkish: “Shaoshan”
  • Ukrainian: “Шаошань”
  • Urdu: “شاوشان”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiều Sơn”
  • Welsh: “Shaoshan”
  • Wu Chinese: “韶山市”
  • Yue Chinese: “韶山”
  • Yue Chinese: “韶山市”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Shaoshan”. Photo: A J Butler, CC BY 3.0.