Chongming
Chongming is a region of Shanghai Municipality consisting of three islands; from largest to smallest: Chongming Island, Changxing Island and Hengsha Island.Photo: kafka4prez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: triplefivechina, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 300,000 residents
- Description: District
- Also known as: “Ch’ung-ming Hsien”, “Chongming County”, “Chongming District”, and “Chongming, Shanghai”
Chongming
- Categories: county of China, district of China, and locality
- Location: Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.62555° or 31° 37′ 32″ northLongitude
121.39271° or 121° 23′ 34″ eastPopulation
300,000Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
8Q33J9GV+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 3900123502OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1814912Wikidata ID
Q788812
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Chongming” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chongming Konderria”
- Basque: “Chongming”
- Cebuano: “Chongming Xian”
- Chinese: “Chông-bêng-khu”
- Chinese: “Chóngmíng Qū”
- Chinese: “崇明”
- Chinese: “崇明区”
- Chinese: “崇明區”
- Chinese: “崇明县”
- Chinese: “崇明縣”
- Czech: “Čchung-ming”
- Danish: “Chongming”
- Dutch: “Chongming”
- French: “Chongming”
- Gan Chinese: “崇明区”
- German: “Chongming”
- Hebrew: “צ’ונגמינג”
- Italian: “Chongming”
- Japanese: “崇明区”
- Korean: “충밍구”
- Literary Chinese: “崇明區”
- Lithuanian: “Čongmingas (rajonas)”
- Lithuanian: “Čongmingas”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sùng-mìng-kṳ̆”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chông-bêng-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chongming”
- Norwegian: “Chongming”
- Persian: “منطقه چونگمینگ”
- Persian: “ناحیه چونگمینگ”
- Polish: “Chongming”
- Portuguese: “Chongming”
- Russian: “Чунмин”
- Slovenian: “Čongming”
- Spanish: “Chongming”
- Swedish: “Chongming”
- Turkish: “Chongming”
- Ukrainian: “Чунмін”
- Urdu: “چونگمنگ ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Sùng Minh”
- Welsh: “Ardal Chongming”
- Wu Chinese: “崇明区”
- Wu Chinese: “崇明县”
- Yue Chinese: “崇明區”
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