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Xingsha Subdistrict

subdistrict in Hunan, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ8044564 ↗
Source-derived summary

Xingsha Subdistrict (Chinese: 星沙街道) is a subdistrict and the county seat of Changsha County in Hunan Province, China. It was reformed in September 2009. Xingsha covers 25.34 km2 (9.78 sq mi), and as of the 2010 census, it had a population of 122,360. The subdistrict is divided into 17 communities.

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“Xingsha Subdistrict” enters the record as subdistrict in Hunan, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Xingsha, Subdistrict and subdistrict can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Xingsha, Subdistrict and subdistrict.
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Why this record matters

“Xingsha Subdistrict” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Xingsha, Subdistrict and subdistrict provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8044564. Authority coordinates are 28.250, 113.086. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Xingsha Subdistrict” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.