window of the world changsha Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/window-of-the-world-changsha Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Changsha http://travelsfinders.com/changsha.html http://travelsfinders.com/changsha.html#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:12:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=230532 Capital of Hunan Province Altitude: 44m/145ft. Area: 117sq.km/45sq. miles Population: 859,000 (conurbation 1,070,000) Changsha lies on the banks of the Xiangjiang, a large tributary of the Changjiang, in a fertile agricultural region in the north-east of Hunan province, at 112°58’E and 28°12’N. The town is served by the Beijing Canton railway and by a small airport. Changsha can look back on two thousand years of history. In the Spring and Autumn periods and the period of the Warring Kingdoms (771-221 b.c.) it was known as Qinyang because of the amount and quality of handworked and artistic goods it produced (textiles,

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