Shaoyang
Shaoyang, formerly named Baoqing (Paoking), is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south.
Shaoyang, formerly named Baoqing (Paoking), 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 in 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 area made of three urban districts and Xinshao County largely conurbated.
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Worth seeing in and around Shaoyang
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Shaoyang University
Shaoyang University is a provincial public college in Shaoyang, Hunan, China.
5.1 km · university in China · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shaoyang
- Airports
- Changsha Huanghua (CSX), 202 km · Zhangjiajie Hehua (DYG), 230 km · Guilin Liangjiang (KWL), 266 km
- Stations
- Shaoyang railway station, 2.8 km
- Changsha (Changsha) → Shaoyang202 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · ¥90–120
- Zhangjiajie (Yongding) → Shaoyang230 km · quickest by road, 5h 34m · ¥155–205
- Guilin (Lingui) → Shaoyang256 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · ¥120–165
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shaoyang
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shaoyang. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Shaoyang – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Shaoyang
- Daxiang Districtdistrict of China1.6 km
- Shuangqing Districtdistrict of China1.3 km
- Beita Districtdistrict of China2 km
- Chengnan Townshipsubdistrict and the seat of Daxiang District in Shaoyang prefecture-level City, China3.4 km
- Niangxitown in China9.3 km