Shaoshan
Shaoshan is a small city in China's Hunan province, famous for being the birthplace of leader and Chinese icon Mao Zedong.
Photo: Brücke-Osteuropa, Public domain.
- City with 41,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 116 metres (381 feet)
- Description: county-level city in China
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shaoshan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qingxi and Shaoshan.
Shaoshan
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Shaoshan
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Latitude
27.9183° or 27° 55′ 6″ north
Longitude
112.5217° or 112° 31′ 18″ east
Open location code
7PVJWG9C+8M
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OpenStreetMap feature
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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: “Sháoshān Shì”
- Chinese: “韶山”
- 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: “Шаошан”
- 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: “Şaoşan”
- 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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Localities in the Area
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Hunan: Highlights
Notable places include Changsha and Zhangjiajie.
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