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Sponsored LinksTravel reviews & great deals at TripAdvisor: ShanghaiShanghai (shăng'hī', shäng'hī') [key], city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. It is an independent unit (2,400 sq mi/6,218 sq km) administered directly by the central government. One of the world's great seaports, Shanghai is China's largest city. Sections in this article: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on Shanghai from Infoplease:
- Shanghai: History - History The name Shanghai dates from the Sung dynasty (11th cent.), but the town, which became a ...
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- Shanghai: Bibliography - Bibliography See studies by F. L. H. Pott (1928, repr. 1973) and S. Dong (2000).
- What does it mean? shanghai - shanghai -- Listen to the pronunciation: WAV format or AU format At an inn near the harbor, the ...
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