[3] The name "Wangcheng" originated from the county seat where it was located in Wangchengpo (Chinese: 望城坡; pinyin: Wàngchéng Pō), on the west bank of the Xiang River in Changsha.

At the time the county was formed, the county seat was transferred to Gaotangling (simplified Chinese: 高塘岭; traditional Chinese: 髙塘嶺; pinyin: gāo táng lǐng), the south side of the Wei River mouth in 1952.

[4] Located in the central north of Changsha, in the low reaches of the Xiang River, Wangcheng adjoins east to Changsha county, Miluo, north to Xiangyin, the Heshan District of Yiyang, west to Ningxiang, southwest to the Yuelu, southeast to the Kaifu.

[6] Wangcheng Economic and Technological Development Zone (WETZ) was established on 13 July 2000, upgraded to an ETZ at state level on 15 February 2014.

[7] The dominant industries in the zone are non-ferrous metal new materials, food, electronic information and business logistics.