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Hengyang (衡阳) is in the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River and to the south of Mount Heng in Hunan Province. Hengyang is a historically significant city renowned as the 'Bright Pearl in Southern China'. It is also known as 'Wild Goose City' because flocks of wild geese flying south for the winter have been known to stop there to rest.
Hengyang (simplified Chinese: 衡阳, traditional Chinese: 衡陽, pinyin: Héngyáng, Mandarin) 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. Its built-up, metro area consisting of four out of the five urban districts was home to 1,075,516 inhabitants at the 2010 census.