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Xiangtan
Hunan, China · Asia
About Xiangtan
Xiangtan sits on the route: 20 minutes from Yisuhe.
Xiangtan is in Hunan, China, with about 960,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Yisuhe, about 10 km away.
Xiangtan (Chinese: 湘潭) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, are in Xiangtan's administration, as well as the hometowns ofRead more
Qing dynasty and republic era painter Qi Baishi, scholar-general Zeng Guofan, and tennis player Peng Shuai.
Xiangtan forms a part of the Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region with Changsha as the core city along with Zhuzhou, also known as Changzhutan City Cluster, one of the core cities in Central China.
Xiangtan is one of the top 200 cities in the world by scientific research outputs, as tracked by the Nature Index. It is home to Xiangtan University, a Double First-Class Construction university, and two provincial key public universities of Hunan Institute of Engineering and Hunan University of Science and Technology, as well as a high-tech industrial development zone.
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Xiangtan is in Hunan, China, about 10 km from Yisuhe.
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- Population
- 959,303
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Hunan
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 27.8500, 112.9000
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