page_title: Shanghai
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Shanghai / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: The Landsat satellite imagery of Shanghai on July 20, 2016 presents the sprawling city proper of this municipality.
context_page_description: Shanghai 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 so big and important that it is a special province-level city, like Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing. Right now, it is the biggest port in the world.
context_section_description: Shanghai is at the mouth of the Yangtze River, where it meets the East China Sea in the middle of China's east coast. Downtown Shanghai is located just south of the place where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu River. This is about 20 kilometers (12 mi) southwest of where the Huangpu meets the Yangtze River. The area between downtown and the Yangtze used to be farmland and other cities like Wusong and Baoshan, but now Shanghai is so big that they are part of it.
caption: Shanghai from space (2016)
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