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.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Popular Destinations
French Concession
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The French Concession is the area of Shanghai that the French government administered from 1849 until 1946.
Pudong
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Pudong 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.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Shanghai Pudong International Airport is the primary international airport serving Shanghai, and a major aviation hub for Asia.Destinations
Huangpu
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Huangpu 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.
Jing'an
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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.
Putuo
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Putuo District (simplified Chinese: 普陀区; traditional Chinese: 普陀區; pinyin: Pǔtuó Qū; Shanghainese: phu2 du1 chiu.
Chongming
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Chongming is a region of Shanghai Municipality consisting of three islands; from largest to smallest: Chongming Island, Changxing Island and Hengsha Island.
Baoshan
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Baoshan is a district of Shanghai, a suburb north of the center with some coastline along the Yangtse River.
Minhang
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Minhang is a district of Shanghai, one of the inner ring of suburbs.
Jinshan
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Jinshan is a suburban district of Shanghai. It is located on the Southwest corner of Shanghai Municipality, bordering Zhejiang province.
Jiading
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Jiading is a district of Shanghai, a suburb on the northern boundary of Shanghai Municipality.
Hongkou
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Hongkou is on the northeast side of Shanghai. The district is most known for Hongkou Stadium, Shanghai University's campus and Lu Xun Park.
Changning
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Changning is a district on the west side of Shanghai, largely residential but with attractions such as the Shanghai Zoo and several large shopping malls.
Songjiang
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Sōngjiāng is a district of Shanghai, southwest of downtown and west of Minhang.
Qingpu
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Qingpu is a district of Shanghai, a suburb on the western edge of Shanghai Municipality.
Yangpu
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Yangpu is one of the districts that comprise the city centre of Shanghai.
Fengxian
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Fengxian 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.
Zhabei
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Zhabei is a district in Shanghai, located North of Suzhou Creek.
Zhujiajiao
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Zhujiajiao is a township in the Qingpu District of Shanghai.
Old City
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The Old City 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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Notable Places in the Area
Shanghai Tower
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Shanghai Tower is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai.
Yu Yuan Garden
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31°13′45″N 121°29′15″E / 31.22917°N 121.48750°E 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.
Shanghai Museum
The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China.Localities in the Area
Shanghai
- Type: City with 24,900,000 residents
- Description: provincial-level municipality in China, the largest city in the PRC
- Neighbors: Jiangsu, Suzhou and Zhejiang
- Categories: direct-administered municipality, national central city, big city, million city, port settlement, global city, megacity, metropolis, largest city, Economic and Technological Development Zones and locality
- Location: East China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.2323° or 31° 13' 56" northLongitude
121.4691° or 121° 28' 9" eastPopulation
24,900,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
SHAUnited Nations Location Code
CN SGHOpen Location Code
8Q336FJ9+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 778910398OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1796236Wikidata ID
Q8686Shanghai Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Shanghai
- Afar: Shanxay
- Afrikaans: Shanghai
- Afrikaans: Sjanghai
- Albanian: Shangai
- Amharic: ሻንጋይ
- Amharic: ሻንግሃይ
- Angika: शंघाई
- Arabic: Shanghai
- 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: Shanghai
- Bosnian: Šangaj
- Breton: Shanghai
- Bulgarian: Шанхай
- Burmese: ရှန်ဟိုင်းမြို့
- Catalan: Shanghai
- Catalan: Xangai
- Catalan: Xanghai
- Cebuano: Shanghai
- Central Bikol: Shanghai
- Central Kurdish: شانگھای
- Chechen: Шанхай
- Cheyenne: Shanghai
- 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
- Croatian: Shanghai
- Croatian: Šangaj
- Czech: Šanghaj
- Dagbani: Shanghai
- Danish: Shanghai
- Dimli (individual language): Shanghai
- Dotyali: शाङ्घाई
- Dutch: Shanghai
- Dutch: Sjanghai
- Eastern Mari: Шанхай
- Egyptian Arabic: شانجهاى
- English: Hu
- English: Municipality of Shanghai
- English: Pearl of the Orient
- English: Shang-hai
- English: Shang Hai
- English: Shanghae
- English: Shanghai, China
- English: Shanghai City
- English: Shanghai Municipality
- English: Shen
- English: Xanghae
- English: Zanghae
- Erzya: Шанхай
- Esperanto: Ŝanhajo
- Estonian: Shanghai
- Extremaduran: Shanghai
- Faroese: Shanghai
- Fiji Hindi: Shanghai
- Fijian: Sagahai
- Fijian: Shanghai
- Finnish: Shanghai
- French: La Perle d'Orient
- French: Shangaï
- French: Shanghai
- French: Shanghaï
- Galician: Shanghai - 上海
- Galician: Shanghai
- Gan Chinese: 上海
- Gan Chinese: 上海市
- Georgian: შანხაი
- Georgian: შანჰაი
- 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
- Hausa: Sông-hói
- Hebrew: שאנגחאי
- Hebrew: שנגחאי
- Hebrew: שנחאי
- Hindi: शंघाई
- Hungarian: Sanghaj
- Hungarian: Shanghai
- Icelandic: Sjanghæ
- Ido: Shanghai
- Iloko: 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
- Karachay-Balkar: Шанхай
- Kazakh: Азияның Венециясы
- Kazakh: Шанхай
- Kazakh: Шығыстың Нью-Йоркі
- Kazakh: Шығыстың Парижі
- Kazakh: Қытайдың Чикагосы
- Khmer: ស៊ាងហៃ
- Kikuyu: Shanghai
- Kirghiz: Шанхай
- Komi: Шанхай
- Kongo: Shanghai
- Korean: 상하이
- Korean: 상하이시
- Korean: 상해
- Korean: 상해시
- Kurdish: Şanghay
- Ladino: Shanghai
- Lao: Shanghai
- Lao: ຊຽງໄຮ້
- Latin: Sanghae
- Latin: Sanghaevum
- Latin: Sciamhaevum
- Latin: Shanghai
- Latin: Xianghae
- Latin: urbs Sciamhaevensis
- 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: शाङ्हाइ
- Nepali: साङ्घाई
- Newari: शाङ्हाइ
- Northern Frisian: Shanghai
- Norwegian: Shanghai
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shanghai
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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: 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: Canɣhay
- Serbo-Croatian: Shanghai
- Serbo-Croatian: Šangaj
- Sicilian: Shanghai
- Silesian: Szanghaj
- Sinhala: ෂැංහයි
- Sinhala: ෂැන්හයි
- 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
- Tamil: சாங்காய்
- Tamil: ஷாங்காய்
- Tamil: ஷான்காய்
- Tatar: Şanxay
- Tatar: Шаңхай
- 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
- Uighur: شاڭخەي شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Шамґай
- Ukrainian: Шанхай
- Ukrainian: Шанґай
- 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
- Yakut: Шанхай
- Yiddish: שאנכיי
- Yue Chinese: 上海市
- Zhuang: Sanghaij
- Zulu: Shanghai
- Shang-hai-shih
- Şengay
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Shanghai. Photo: andygee1, CC BY 2.0.