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Shanghai

Shanghai is the most developed city in , 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.

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The is the area of Shanghai that the French government administered from 1849 until 1946. The tree-lined avenues and the many fine old houses in the area still retain an air of the "Paris of the East".

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is a district of Shanghai on the eastern side of the Huang Pu River, an ultra-modern business hub full of high-rise buildings including several of the world's tallest.

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is the primary international airport serving Shanghai, and a major aviation hub for . It is 40 km to the east of the city center on the sea coast of Pudong.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Huangpu and Jing’an.

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is an administrative district of Shanghai, the traditional center of the city, with People's Square, the Bund, the East Nanjing Road pedestrian mall and many other attractions.

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Jing'an is a district in downtown Shanghai. It is named after the historic Jing'an Temple, and its transport hub is the Jing'an Temple metro station. Other than a few temples and Chairman Mao's former house, there are few sights in Jing'an but if you are looking for shopping and eating or want to admire skyscrapers, then this is a prime area.

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is a district of Shanghai, a suburb north of the center with some coastline along the Yangtse River.

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District (Chinese: 普陀区; pinyin: Pǔtuó Qū; Shanghainese: phu2 du1 chiu. District borders Baoshan District to the north, Jing'an District to the east and south east, Changning District to the south west and Jiading District to the west.

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is a region of Shanghai Municipality consisting of three islands; from largest to smallest: Island, Changxing Island and Hengsha Island.

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Sōngjiāng is a district of Shanghai, southwest of downtown and west of . is divided in two by the Huhang expressway. The northern part is the new town, Xincheng.

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is a district of Shanghai, a suburb on the western edge of Shanghai Municipality. Administratively, includes the water town Zhujiajiao, a popular tourist area. We give Zhujiajiao its own article; this article covers the rest of .

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is a district of Shanghai, one of the inner ring of suburbs. It is mainly a residential and factory area, but there is a bit of everything. Population is about 2.4 million.

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is a suburban district of Shanghai. It is located on the Southwest corner of Shanghai Municipality, bordering province. At the western tip of the district is a traditional water town — a scenic area with many canals and old buildings — named Fengjing.

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is a district of Shanghai, a suburb on the northern boundary of Shanghai Municipality. Its best-known attraction is Shanghai International Circuit, an auto and motorcycle race track that hosts many events including some Formula One races.

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is on the northeast side of Shanghai. The district is most known for Stadium, Shanghai University's campus and Lu Xun Park.

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is a district on the west side of Shanghai, largely residential but with attractions such as the Shanghai Zoo and several large shopping malls.

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is one of the districts that comprise the city centre of Shanghai. It is located northeast of the downtown core and is predominantly made up of residential communities.

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is a suburban district of Shanghai. By Shanghai standards it is almost rural, but it has a population of over a million and considerable development, mainly residential and industrial. Nanqiao town is the largest clump of development.

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is a district in Shanghai, located North of Suzhou Creek. Although it lacks tourist attractions it is being developed into a modern commercial area.

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is a township in the of Shanghai. The population of is around 60,000. The town has a very vibrant ancient water village that is the focus of this article.

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The is the area inside the ancient walled city of Shanghai; it is one of the most picturesque areas of the city, with many buildings in traditional Chinese style.

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is the Southern part of the Pudong New Area in Shanghai. is much less developed than the area to the North, but still populous, industrialized and growing.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shanghai Museum and Yu Yuan Garden.

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The is a municipal public of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China. It is funded by the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau.

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Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai.

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The is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall megatall skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. It is currently the tallest building in China and the world's third-tallest building by height to architectural top.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shimenerlu and Ruijinerlu.

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is a suburb.

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is a suburb.

Shanghai

Latitude
31.2323° or 31° 13′ 56″ north
Longitude
121.4691° or 121° 28′ 9″ east
Population
24,900,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Abbreviation
“沪”
IATA airport code
SHA
United Nations Location Code
CN SGH
Open location code
8Q336FJ9+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 778910398
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1796236
Wiki­data ID
Q8686
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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: “সাংঘাই”
  • Bengali: “সাংহাই”
  • 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: “Siōng-hái-chhī”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “Shanghai”
  • Dutch: “Sjanghai”
  • Dutch: “Sjanghei”
  • 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: “Shangaï”
  • 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”
  • Hungarian: “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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Lojban: “canxais.”
  • Lombard: “Shanghai”
  • Low German: “Shanghai”
  • Low German: “Sjanghai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Shanghai”
  • Macedonian: “Шангај”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Шанхай”
  • Pampanga: “Shanghai”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੰਘਾਈ”
  • Papiamento: “Shanghai”
  • Persian: “شانگهای”
  • Piemontese: “Shanghai”
  • Polish: “Szanghaj”
  • Portuguese: “Xangai”
  • Pushto: “شانګهای”
  • Pushto: “شانگهای”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Шаңхай”
  • Telugu: “షాంగ్హై”
  • Telugu: “షాంఘై”
  • Thai: “เซี่ยงไฮ้”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྲང་ཧའེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Sianghai”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Shanghai”
  • 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 (Tsyinän)”
  • Volapük: “Shanghai”
  • Võro: “Shanghai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shanghai”
  • Welsh: “Shanghai”
  • Western Armenian: “Շանկհայ”
  • Western Frisian: “Shanghai”
  • Western Panjabi: “شنگہائی”
  • Wolof: “Shanghai”
  • Wu Chinese: “上海”
  • Wu Chinese: “上海市”
  • Xhosa: “Shanghai”
  • Yakut: “Шанхай”
  • Yiddish: “שאנכיי”
  • Yue Chinese: “上海市”
  • Zeeuws: “Sjanghai”
  • Zhuang: “Sanghaij”
  • Zulu: “Shanghai”
  • “Šanchajos”
  • “Shanghai”
  • “Xanghai”

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