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Abstract

Shanghai is a province-level municipality of the PRC. It is also the largest city proper by population in the world. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China, it sits at the mouth of the river in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality consists of a peninsula between the Yangtze and the Hangzhou Bay, Chongming (mainland China’s second-largest island) and a number of smaller islands. It is bordered to the north and west by Jiangsu Province, to the south by Zhejiang Province and to the east by the East China Sea.

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Guo, R. (2013). Shanghai. In: Regional China. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287670_25

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