Changsha, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province, is also called Xingcheng, the capital of Hunan Province. The city * * * governs 6 municipal districts, 2 county-level cities and 1 county, with a total area of 1 18 19 square kilometers and a built-up area of 567.32 square kilometers.
Changsha is an experimental zone for comprehensive reform of "two-oriented society" in China, an important grain production base in China, and an important node city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It is also a comprehensive transportation hub and a national logistics hub, where Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway, Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway and Chongqing-Xiamen high-speed railway meet.
The origin of place names
Changsha is named after the "hometown of sandy soil". The geological structures in Changsha are mainly seasonal sandstone, glutenite, siltstone and shale. After years of external force, weathering and water erosion, a large number of sand and gravel accumulated on the surface.
Especially in the Xiangjiang River Basin where the center of Changsha is located, there are a lot of beaches and sandbars. Every dry season, these continents and beaches are exposed to show people pieces of sand, especially when the sand grows up, "white sand is like frost and snow", which is very eye-catching, so many ancient books call Changsha a sand town or a land of sand.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Changsha City