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Shanghai
Not to be confused with Sangai.
Shanghai (Chinese: 上海, Shanghainese pronunciation: [zɑ̃.hɛ] (listen); Mandarin pronunciation:[ʂâŋ.xài] (listen)) is the biggest city in China and one of the world's largest cities.
It had about 24,000,000 people in 2017. It is a special province-level city in China ("municipality"), like Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing.
Name
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The Mandarin Chinese name of Shanghai is Shànghǎi,[a] which is written as 上海 in Chinese characters.
Shanghai countryThis name means "On-the-Sea" because Shanghai used to be next to the East China Sea. Today, dirt from the Yangtze River has made Pudong much bigger and downtown Shanghai is about 40 kilometers (25 mi) from the open sea. The city has become so big, though, that its government now controls other areas like Pudong and Fengxian that are still beside the sea.
Shanghai's name is a little simpler than most other Chinese cities' names, because it was a small fishingvillage for a long time. The short
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