Hengyang

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Hengyang

Total population

167,500

Coordinates26.97°, 112.37°

Demographic figures from National Bureau of Statistics of China. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Hengyang is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China. It straddles the Xiang River about 160 km (99 mi) south of the provincial capital of Changsha. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Its total population was 6,645,243 inhabitants, of whom 1,290,715 lived in the built-up area consisting of 4 urban districts, Nanyue District not being conurbated yet.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Hunan

• Xianshan
  5.1 mi away
• Shanqiao
  7.5 mi away
• Tanzishan
  9.4 mi away
• Quanhu
  10.1 mi away
• Daiyingling
  10.8 mi away
• Yumushan
  13.8 mi away
• Zhajiang
  14.3 mi away
• Yueping
  16.6 mi away
• Goulou
  16.8 mi away
• Maoshi
  19.3 mi away
• Qulan
  19.4 mi away
• Qidong
  21 mi away · pop. 228,900

Browse all places in Hunan →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Hengyang

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Oriental Magpie

Pica serica

Seen 2026-02-03

Wild Soybean

Glycine max soja

Seen 2025-10-09

Spotted spurge

Euphorbia maculata

Seen 2024-10-20

Oriental leafworm moth

Spodoptera litura

Seen 2024-10-20

Indo-Chinese Rat Snake

Ptyas korros

Seen 2024-02-20

little ironweed

Cyanthillium cinereum

Seen 2016-11-05

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).