Shanghai, referred to as Shanghai for short, is a municipality directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China, the birthplace of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a national central city, a megacity, a core city of Shanghai metropolitan area, a famous historical and cultural city in China and a first-tier city in the world. Shanghai has basically become an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center, forming the basic framework of a globally influential science and technology innovation center.
Shanghai is located in the east of China, on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and on the eastern edge of the Asian continent. It belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta, with an average elevation of12052'-12212' and a latitude of 30 40'-3153'.
geographical environment
Shanghai belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta, with an average elevation of about 2. 19 meters. The highest altitude is Dajinshan Island in Hangzhou Bay, Jinshan District, with an altitude of 103.70 meters. In the west, there are remnants of tianmashan, Xue Shan and Phoenix Mountain, and tianmashan is the highest altitude in Shanghai, with an altitude of 99.8 meters. There is a stone tablet at the top of Sheshan Mountain, and there are Dajinshan Island and Xiaojinshan in the sea.
In the north of Shanghai, there are three islands, namely Chongming Island, Changxing Island and hengsha island. Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, is formed by alluvial sediment carried by the Yangtze River, with an area of1041.21km2 and an altitude of 3.5m-4.5m. Changxing Island covers an area of 88.54 square kilometers and hengsha island covers an area of 55.74 square kilometers.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanghai