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Chang⋅sha

[chahng-shah]
–noun Pinyin, Wade-Giles.
a city in and the capital of Hunan province, in SE China. 825,000.

Hu⋅nan

[hoo-nahn]
–noun
1. Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in S China. 37,810,000; 81,274 sq. mi. (210,500 sq. km). Capital: Changsha.
2. Also, Hu⋅nam [hoo-nahm] . Chinese Cookery. a style of cooking from this province, characterized esp. by the use of hot peppers.
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Chang·sha   (chäng'shä')   
A city of southern China on the Xiang Jiang west-southwest of Shanghai. It was founded in the early third century B.C. and was long noted as a literary center. Changsha is the capital of Hunan province. Population: 1,480,000.
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