Shanghai Travel Guide
Overview
English Name: Shanghai City
Chinese Name: 上海市
Location: in the east of China
Area: 6645 square kilometers
Population: 24758900 ( in 2022 )
Nationalities: Han, Man, Hui
Administrative:
Shanghai, situated in the Yangtze River Delta, is the biggest city of China, which sits on the south edge of the estuary of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the Eastern China coast. The municipality of Shanghai borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the south, east, and west, and is bound to the east by the East China Sea. Shanghai is one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of the central government of the People's Republic of China. With a population of 24.2 million as of 2018, it is the most populous urban area in China, and the second most populous city proper in the world. Shanghai is a global financial, innovation and technology, and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port...More