Shanghai
Shanghai is the most developed city in China, the country's main center for finance and fashion, and one of the world's most populous and important cities.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include French Concession and Pudong.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Huangpu and Jing’an.
Jiading
Jiading is a district of Shanghai, a suburb on the northern boundary of Shanghai Municipality.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Shanghai Museum and Yu Yuan Garden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lujiazui and Huaihai Zhonglu.
Shanghai
- City with 24,900,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 12 metres (39 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code SHA
- …is abbreviated as “沪”
- Description: provincial-level municipality in China
- Also known as“Hu”“Municipality of Shanghai”“Pearl of the Orient”“Shang Hai Shi”“Shang-hai-shih”“Shanghae”“Shanghai City”“Shanghai Municipality”“Shanghai, China”“Shen”“Xanghae”“Zanghae”
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Latitude
31.2323° or 31° 13′ 56″ north
Longitude
121.4691° or 121° 28′ 9″ east
UN/LOCODE
CN SGH
Open location code
8Q336FJ9+WJ
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Shanghai” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Shanghai”
- Afrikaans: “Shanghai”
- Afrikaans: “Sjanghai”
- Albanian: “Shangai”
- Amharic: “ሻንጋይ”
- Amharic: “ሻንግሃይ”
- Angika: “शंघाई”
- Arabic: “شانغهاي”
- Arabic: “شنغهاي”
- Aragonese: “Shanghai”
- Aragonese: “Xangai”
- Armenian: “Շանհայ”
- Arpitan: “Shanghai”
- Arpitan: “Shanghay”
- Assamese: “ছাংহাই”
- Asturian: “Shanghai”
- Awadhi: “शाङ्घाई”
- Aymara: “Shanghai”
- Azerbaijani: “Şanxay”
- Balinese: “Shanghai”
- Bambara: “Shanghai”
- Bashkir: “Шанхай”
- Basque: “Shanghai”
- Belarusian: “Шанхай”
- Bengali: “শাংহাই”
- Bengali: “সাংঘাই”
- Bengali: “সাংহাই”
- Betawi: “Sionghay”
- Bislama: “Shanghai”
- Bosnian: “Šangaj”
- Bosnian: “Shanghai”
- Breton: “Shanghai”
- Bulgarian: “Шанхай”
- Burmese: “ရှန်ဟိုင်းမြို့”
- Catalan: “Shanghai”
- Catalan: “Xangai”
- Catalan: “Xanghai”
- Cebuano: “Shanghai Shi”
- Cebuano: “Shanghai”
- Central Bikol: “Shanghai”
- Central Kanuri: “Shanghai”
- Central Kurdish: “شانگھای”
- Chechen: “Шанхай”
- Cheyenne: “Shanghai”
- Chinese: “Shànghǎi Shì”
- Chinese: “Siō̤ng-hâi-chī”
- Chinese: “上海”
- Chinese: “上海市”
- Chinese: “中国上海”
- Chinese: “中國上海”
- Chinese: “沪”
- Chinese: “滬”
- Chinese: “申”
- Chinese: “申城”
- Chuvash: “Шанхай”
- Cornish: “Shanghai”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şanhay”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şañhay”
- Croatian: “Šangaj”
- Croatian: “Shanghai”
- Czech: “Šanghaj”
- Dagbani: “Shanghai”
- Danish: “Shanghai”
- Dimli (individual language): “Şengay”
- Dimli (individual language): “Shanghai”
- Dotyali: “शाङ्घाई”
- Dotyali: “साङ्घाई”
- Dutch: “Shanghai”
- Dutch: “Sjanghai”
- Dutch: “Sjanghei”
- Dzongkha: “ཤང་ཧའེ། རྒྱ་ནག། Shanghai, China”
- Eastern Mari: “Шанхай”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شانجهاى”
- Erzya: “Шанхай”
- Esperanto: “Ŝanhajo”
- Estonian: “Shanghai”
- Extremaduran: “Shanghai”
- Faroese: “Shanghai”
- Fiji Hindi: “Shanghai”
- Fijian: “Sagahai”
- Fijian: “Shanghai”
- Finnish: “Shanghai”
- French: “Chang-hai”
- French: “Chang-haï”
- French: “Changhai”
- French: “Changhaï”
- French: “La Perle d’Orient”
- French: “Shanghai”
- French: “Shanghaï”
- Friulian: “Shanghai”
- Galician: “Shanghai”
- Gan Chinese: “上海”
- Gan Chinese: “上海市”
- Georgian: “შანხაი”
- Georgian: “შანჰაი”
- German: “Schang-hai”
- German: “Schanghai”
- German: “Shanghai”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Shanghai”
- Greek: “Σαγκάη”
- Greek: “Σανγκάη”
- Guarani: “Changái”
- Gujarati: “ક્વિંગક્વાન”
- Gujarati: “શંઘાઈ”
- Haitian: “Shanghai”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sông-hói”
- Hausa: “Shanghai”
- Hebrew: “שאנגחאי”
- Hebrew: “שנגחאי”
- Hebrew: “שנחאי”
- Hindi: “शंघाई”
- Hungarian: “Sanghaj”
- Iban: “Shanghai”
- Icelandic: “Sjanghæ”
- Icelandic: “Sjanghaí”
- Ido: “Shanghai”
- Iloko: “Shanghai”
- Inari Sami: “Shanghai”
- Indonesian: “Shanghai”
- Ingush: “Шанхай”
- Interlingua: “Shanghai”
- Interlingue: “Shanghai”
- Irish: “Shang-hai”
- Italian: “Shanghai”
- Japanese: “上海”
- Japanese: “上海市”
- Japanese: “橋”
- Japanese: “浜”
- Japanese: “浦”
- Japanese: “涇”
- Japanese: “滬”
- Japanese: “漕”
- Japanese: “申”
- Japanese: “蕩”
- Javanese: “Shanghai”
- Kabiyè: “Caŋgayɩ”
- Kalaallisut: “Shanghai”
- Kalmyk: “Шанхай”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಂಗ್ಹೈ”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಂಘೈ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shanghai”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shanxay”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Шанхай”
- Kashmiri: “شَنٛگھاے”
- Kazakh: “Aziianyñ Venetsiiasy”
- Kazakh: “Qytaidyñ Chikagosy”
- Kazakh: “Şanhai”
- Kazakh: “Şyğystyñ Niu-İorkı”
- Kazakh: “Şyğystyñ Parijı”
- Kazakh: “Азияның Венециясы”
- Kazakh: “Қытайдың Чикагосы”
- Kazakh: “Шанхай”
- Kazakh: “Шаңхай”
- Kazakh: “Шығыстың Нью-Йоркі”
- Kazakh: “Шығыстың Парижі”
- Khmer: “ស៊ាងហៃ”
- Kikuyu: “Shanghai”
- Kirghiz: “Шанхай”
- Kirghiz: “Шаңхай”
- Komi: “Шанхай”
- Kongo: “Shanghai”
- Korean: “상하이”
- Korean: “상하이시”
- Korean: “상해”
- Korean: “상해시”
- Kurdish: “Şanghay”
- Ladino: “Shanghai”
- Lao: “ຊຽງໄຮ້”
- Lao: “ຊ່ຽງໄຮ້”
- Latin: “Sanghae”
- Latin: “Sanghaevum”
- Latin: “Sciamhaevum”
- Latin: “Shanghai”
- Latin: “urbs Sciamhaevensis”
- Latin: “Xianghae”
- Latvian: “Šanhaja”
- Lezghian: “Шанхай”
- Limburgan: “Sjanghai”
- Lingala: “Shanghai”
- Literary Chinese: “上海市”
- Lithuanian: “Šanchajus”
- Livvi: “Shanghai”
- Lojban: “canxais.”
- Lombard: “Shanghai”
- Low German: “Shanghai”
- Low German: “Sjanghai”
- Luxembourgish: “Shanghai”
- Macedonian: “Шангај”
- Madurese: “Shanghai”
- Maithili: “शाङ्घाई”
- Malagasy: “Shanghai”
- Malay: “Shanghai”
- Malayalam: “ഷാങ്ഹായ്”
- Maltese: “Shanghai”
- Manx: “Shanghai”
- Maori: “Hangahai”
- Maori: “Shanghai”
- Marathi: “शांघाय”
- Mazanderani: “شانگهای”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Siông-hāi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siōng-hái-chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Shanghai”
- Mingrelian: “შანხაი”
- Mirandese: “Xangai”
- Mongolian: “Шанхай”
- Moroccan Arabic: “شانڭهاي”
- Moroccan Arabic: “شانݣهاي”
- Neapolitan: “Shanghai”
- Nepali: “शाङ्घाई”
- Nepali: “साङ्घाई”
- Newari: “शाङ्हाइ”
- Northern Frisian: “Shanghai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shanghai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shanghai”
- Norwegian: “Shanghai”
- Novial: “Shanghai”
- Nyanja: “Shanghai”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shanghai”
- Oromo: “Shaangaayi”
- Oromo: “Shanghai”
- Ossetian: “Шанхай”
- Pampanga: “Shanghai”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੰਘਾਈ”
- Papiamento: “Shanghai”
- Persian: “شانگهای”
- Piemontese: “Shanghai”
- Polish: “Szanghaj”
- Portuguese: “Xangai”
- Pushto: “شانګهای”
- Pushto: “شانگهای”
- Pushto: “شنگهای”
- Quechua: “Shanghai”
- Romanian: “Perla Orientului”
- Romanian: “Shang Hai”
- Romanian: “Shanghai, China”
- Romanian: “Shanghai”
- Romansh: “Schanghai”
- Russia Buriat: “Шанхай”
- Russian: “Шанхай”
- Rusyn: “Шанґгай”
- Samogitian: “Šanchajos”
- Santali: “ᱥᱟᱝᱜᱷᱟᱭ”
- Sardinian: “Shanghai”
- Scots: “Shanghai”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Shanghai”
- Serbian: “Шангај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šangaj”
- Sicilian: “Shanghai”
- Silesian: “Szanghaj”
- Sindhi: “شنگهائي”
- Sindhi: “شنگھائي”
- Sinhala: “ෂැන්හයි”
- Sinhala: “ෂැංහයි”
- Slovak: “Šanghaj”
- Slovenian: “Šanghaj”
- Somali: “Shanghai”
- South Azerbaijani: “شانقهای”
- Spanish: “Shangai”
- Spanish: “Shanghai”
- Spanish: “Shanghái”
- Sundanese: “Shanghai”
- Swahili: “Shanghai”
- Swedish: “Shanghai”
- Swiss German: “Shanghai”
- Tachelhit: “Canɣhay”
- Tagalog: “Shanghai”
- Tajik: “Шангҳай”
- Tajik: “Шанхай”
- Talysh: “Šanxaj”
- Tamil: “சாங்காய்”
- Tamil: “ஷாங்காய்”
- Tamil: “ஷான்காய்”
- Tatar: “Şanxay”
- Tatar: “Шанхай”
- Tatar: “Шаңхай”
- Telugu: “షాంగ్హై”
- Telugu: “షాంఘై”
- Thai: “เซี่ยงไฮ้”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲང་ཧའེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Tok Pisin: “Sianghai”
- Tswana: “Shanghai”
- Turkish: “Şangay”
- Turkish: “Şanghay”
- Turkmen: “Şanhaý”
- Twi: “Shangai”
- Udmurt: “Шанхай”
- Uighur: “شاڭخەي شەھىرى”
- Uighur: “شاڭخەي”
- Ukrainian: “Шамґай”
- Ukrainian: “Шанґай”
- Ukrainian: “Шанхай”
- Urdu: “بلدیہ شنگھائی”
- Urdu: “پرل آف دی اورینٹ”
- Urdu: “شنگھائی بلدیہ”
- Urdu: “شنگھائی شہر”
- Urdu: “شنگھائی میونسپلٹی”
- Urdu: “شنگھائی”
- Uzbek: “Shanxay”
- Venetian: “Siangai”
- Veps: “Šanhai”
- Vietnamese: “Thượng Hải”
- Vlax Romani: “Shanghai”
- Volapük: “Shanghai”
- Võro: “Shanghai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shanghai”
- Welsh: “Shanghai”
- Western Armenian: “Շանկհայ”
- Western Frisian: “Shanghai”
- Western Frisian: “Sjanghai”
- Western Panjabi: “شنگہائی”
- Wolof: “Shanghai”
- Wu Chinese: “上海”
- Wu Chinese: “上海市”
- Xhosa: “Shanghai”
- Yakut: “Шанхай”
- Yiddish: “שאנכיי”
- Yue Chinese: “Gaa Ding” (historical)
- Yue Chinese: “Ka Ting” (historical)
- Yue Chinese: “Seung hoi”
- Yue Chinese: “Sheung Hoi”
- Yue Chinese: “上海”
- Yue Chinese: “上海市”
- Zeeuws: “Sjanghai”
- Zhuang: “Sanghaij”
- Zulu: “Shanghai”
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