Place:Xiangtan, Hunan, People's Republic of China

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NameXiangtan
Alt namesHsiangt'ansource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Siangtansource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeCity
Coordinates27.85°N 112.9°E
Located inHunan, People's Republic of China
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Shaoshan
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Xiangtan 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 of Qing dynasty 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 home to Xiangtan University, a new Double First Class university and two provincial key public universities of Hunan Institute of Engineering and Hunan University of Science and Technology.

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