Shanghai's geographical location and administrative regions City Name
Shanghai (in English: Shanghai Municipality; Pinyin: Shànghǎi Shì). Referred to as the "Shanghai", known as "Shen."
Coordinates
Town Center located at latitude 31 degrees 13 minutes 49.5 seconds east longitude 121 degrees 28 minutes 13.21 seconds.
National
The People's Republic of China (People's Republic of China)
Area
To the end of 2008, Shanghai has 18 districts, a county, a total of 107 towns, 3 townships, 101 sub-district offices, 3525 neighborhood committees and 1830 village committees (the Shanghai Municipal Government Network) [1]. In May 2009 to remove the Nanhui District, will be incorporated in the Pudong New Area, the administrative region [2].
Establishment
Huating County: AD 751 (Tang Tianbao ten years)
Shanghai Town: AD 991 (Song Chun of two years)
Shanghai County: 1292 (RMB Yuan twenty-nine years)
Shanghai Special City: 1927 (Republic of sixteen)
Shanghai: 1930 (Republic of nineteen)
Government
Shanghai municipal government is located in Huangpu District. Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng, Mayor Han Zheng [3].
Area
The city area of 7,037.50 square kilometers (the end of 2007, China's provincial-level administrative section 32). In which an area of 6,340.5 square kilometers of land, water area of 697 square kilometers, the urban area of 2,648.6 square kilometers, built area of 860.2 square kilometers (2006, China's No. 2 city, behind Beijing; The People's Republic of China National Bureau of Statistics).
Elevation
The city's average elevation of 4 meters. Big Jinshan of Shanghai in the highest point of elevation of 103.4 meters.
Population
The city's population of 1,888.46 million (the end of 2008, China's first provincial-level administrative region 25), in which the resident population of 1,371.04 million residence. Population density is 2,638 persons / square kilometer (2008, China's provincial-level administrative section 3, behind Macau, Hong Kong). Urban population of 1,453 million (in 2007, mainland China city of Cap 1).