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Xiangtan

  (shyäng'tän') pronunciation also Siangtan (syäng'-, shyäng'-)

A city of south-central China on the Xiang Jiang south-southwest of Changsha. It is an industrial center. Population: 550,000.

 

 
 
(shyäng'tän') or Siangtan (shyäng'tän', syäng') , city (1994 est. pop. 490,100), E central Hunan prov., China, on the Xiang River. Formerly an agricultural distribution center, it is now industrialized. Products include textiles, iron, steel, manganese ore, cement, and machine tools. The name sometimes appears as Hsiang-t'an.


 
Dialing Code: The telephone dialing code for: Xiangtan, China

The country code is: 86
The city code is: 732


 
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Location in Hunan Province

Xiangtan (Chinese: 湘潭; pinyin: Xiāngtán) is a city located in the center of Hunan province, China. It is part of the "ChangZhuTan Golden Triangle" (comprising the cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan). It consists of two county-level cities Xiangxiang(湘乡) and Shaoshan(韶山), one county Xiangtan county and two district Yuetang district(岳塘区) and Tuhu discrict(雨湖区).

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Prefecture-level divisions of Hunan
Prefecture-level cities: Changde | Changsha | Chenzhou | Hengyang | Huaihua | Loudi
Shaoyang | Xiangtan | Yiyang | Yongzhou | Yueyang | Zhangjiajie | Zhuzhou
Autonomous prefecture: Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
List of Hunan County-level divisions



Coordinates: 27°51′N 112°54′E / 27.85, 112.9


 
 

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