Shanghái, China
A population of more than 24 million, is the largest and traditionally the most developed metropolis in Mainland China. Shanghai was the largest and most prosperous city in the Far East during the 1930s. In the past 20 years it has again become an attractive city for tourists from all over the world.
The world once again had its eyes on the city when it hosted the 2010 World Expo, recording the greatest number of visitors in the event’s history. Shanghai is split in two by the Huangpu River. The most basic division of the area is Puxi West of the river, versus Pudong, East of the river.
Both terms can be used in a general sense for everything on their side of the river, but are often used in a much narrower sense where Puxi is the older central part of the city and Pudong the mass of new high-rise development across the river since the 1980s.
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