Shanghai

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Shanghai

Total population

24,870,895

Air quality index

99Moderate

Coordinates31.23°, 121.47°

Demographic figures from National Bureau of Statistics of China. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Shanghai is a provincial-level direct-administered municipality in China. It has a population of 30,050,000 in the urban area as of 2026, thus making it China's most populous city and more broadly the fifth-largest city in the world by population. The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River bisecting the city.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

G

Guo Sheng

Chinese football player

An Wang

American businessman (1920–1990)

Wan Gang

Chinese retired politician

R

Rupprecht Gerngroß

German lawyer (1915–1996)

Edmond H. Fischer

American biochemist (1920–2021)

E

Edward Judd

British actor (1932-2009)

Zhu Guanghu

Chinese football manager

S

Shen Jun

Chinese footballer

Z

Zhu Lin

Chinese badminton player

J. G. Ballard

British novelist (1930–2009)

Rita Fan

Hong Kong politician

Thierry Jordan

French Roman Catholic archbishop

Tsung-Dao Lee

Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)

Z

Zhang Ailing

Chinese badminton player

Eileen Chang

Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter (1920–1995)

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Zhang Deying

Chinese table tennis player

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Shanghai

• Huangpu
  0.6 mi away
• Xuhui
  3.7 mi away
• Yangpu
  3.7 mi away
• Pudong
  4.2 mi away · pop. 5,681,512
• Beicai
  5.8 mi away
• Changzheng
  6 mi away
• Xinjing
  6.1 mi away
• Sanlin
  6.1 mi away
• Gaojing
  6.3 mi away
• Miaohang
  7.3 mi away
• Taopu
  7.3 mi away
• Songnan
  8.2 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Shanghai

Shanghai girls

Lisa See · 2009

Life and death in Shanghai

Nien Cheng · 1986

上海寶貝

Wei Hui · 2000

shanghai.shanghai.shanghai

Alex Kuo · 2015

The painter from Shanghai

Jennifer Cody Epstein · 2008

Shanghai

Marco Paoluzzo · 2000

Hotel Shangai

Vicki Baum · 1939

shanghai.shanghai.shanghai (The Pashou Edition)

Alex Kuo · 2015

Search results from Open Library.

Gallery

Geotagged photos within ~6 miles of Shanghai, from Wikimedia Commons contributors.

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