Shanghai (chn)

Shanghai

Shanghai ranks 113th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Minsk, Ljubljana, and Havana. Memorable people born in Shanghai include Soong Ching-ling, Edmond H. Fischer, and Soong Mei-ling. Memorable people who died in Shanghai include Lu Xun, Li Keqiang, and Huo Yuanjia. Shanghai has been the birth place of many actors, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and actors. Shanghai is located in China.

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of nearly 13 trillion RMB. Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, tourism, and culture. The Port of Shanghai is the world's busiest container port. Read more on Wikipedia