What is "changsha"

Changsha ( simplified Chinese: 长沙, traditional Chinese: 長沙) is the capital of the province of Hunan in China. With a total area of 11,800 square kilometers, its population in 2014 was 7,311,500, of whom 5,288,800 lived in the built-up area made of 6 urban districts (3,617,469 inhabitants) and Changsha County which has also recently been urbanized. The city, located in the south-central China, is governed as a prefecture-level city under the Hunan government with 9 county-level divisions, 5 national development zones, and 9 provincial zones. Changsha is recognized as the political, economic, financial, cultural, educational and transportation center of Hunan province. The name of "Changsha" was first seen in the Zhou Dynasty. In later dynasties, Changsha was always an important city of Hunan and a key town in Southern China.

Changsha has a 3,000-year history of occupation, and was an important center of the Chu State culture in the Warring States period (5th-3rd c. BC). The lacquerware and silk textiles recovered from a Western Han (2nd century BC) tomb at Changsha are an indication of the richness of local craft traditions. In 1904 Changsha was opened to foreign trade, and large numbers of Europeans and Americans settled there. Changsha was the site of Mao Zedong's conversion to communism. It was also the scene of major battles in the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 and was briefly occupied by the Japanese. Today, Changsha is an important commercial center and river port with abundant light industrial production.

Changsha ( Chinese: 长沙) is a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1925. It is considered by many Chinese to be of high literary quality and one of the best of Mao's poems.

Changsha is the capital of China's Hunan province.

Changsha may also refer to:

• Changsha County, a local county
• Changsha dialect, the local dialect of the Xiang language family
• "Changsha" (poem), a 1925 poem by Mao Zedong
• Changsha (ship), a ship owned and operated by the China Navigation Company
• Changsha (state), a state during the Han Dynasty of China.
• Changsha Island, a former island in the Yangtze estuary now joined to Chongming