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Shaoyang
Hunan, China · Asia
About Shaoyang
Shaoyang sits on the route: 15 minutes from Niangxi.
Shaoyang is in Hunan, China, with about 750,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Niangxi, about 8 km away.
Shaoyang (simplified Chinese: 邵阳; traditional Chinese: 邵陽; pinyin: Shàoyáng), formerly named Baoqing (Paoking) (Chinese: 宝庆), is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It has a history of 2500 years and remains an important commercial and transportation city inRead more
Hunan. As of the 2020 Chinese census, its total population was 6,563,520 inhabitants, of whom 1,415,173 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of three urban districts and Xinshao County largely conurbated.
One of the major forest areas in Hunan, Shaoyang has a forest coverage of 42.7%. The 23,000,000-acre (93,000 km2) NanShan Pastures is one of the biggest in South Central China and provide dairy products and meat for Hunanese.
Shaoyang is home to Shaoyang University. The school is composed of the former Shaoyang Normal College and Shaoyang College.
The Shaoyang dialect of Lou Shao group of dialects of Xiang is generally spoken here.
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Shaoyang is in Hunan, China, about 8 km from Niangxi.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 753,194
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Hunan
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 27.2382, 111.4621
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