Claim: (2197) Shanghai, discovered by Purple Mountain Obs. on December 30, 1965, is categorized as a main-belt Themis and C-type asteroid named after the Chinese city, Shanghai.
Evidence: The asteroid was discovered on 30 December 1965, by astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanking, China, and named after the city of Shanghai. C main-belt · Themis Shanghai (Chinese: 上海, Shanghainese pronunciation: [zɑ̃̀.hɛ́ (listen), Standard Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂâŋ.xài (listen)) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China.