General Information
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. It has a population of 29,558,908 in the urban area as of 2025. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River bisecting the city. Shanghai is a global center 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. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of nearly 13 trillion RMB.
- Population: 27,000,000+ (Metro Area)
- Area: 6,340 km²
- Coordinates: Latitude: 31.228610992432, Longitude: 121.47472381592
- Timezone: Timezone info not available
- Current Local Time: ailab
Latest Shanghai News
China Daily > China News
Education, health fees among key concerns
China to legislate on preschool education
China Daily > China News
Education, health fees among key concerns
China to legislate on preschool education
China Daily > China News
Satellite lofted for first Arab country
A Chinese-made communications satellite became the first "export" of such a spacecraft to an Arab country when it was launched by China on Monday for Algeria.
China Daily > China News
Satellite lofted for first Arab country
A Chinese-made communications satellite became the first "export" of such a spacecraft to an Arab country when it was launched by China on Monday for Algeria.
BBC News
Pakistan air strike kills at least 100 at Kabul drug rehab centre
Some of the bodies were injured beyond recognition, forensic laboratory sources told the BBC.
BBC News
Gas on the line: will the Iran war squeeze India's piped gas next?
The Iran war has already rattled LPG users. Will India’s piped gas network face the next squeeze?
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
Video: Man rescued from under rubble after attack in Iran
A man was rescued from under the rubble of a destroyed building in Iran following an Israeli strike.
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
Ex-Belgian diplomat ordered to stand trial over murder of Congo’s Lumumba
Etienne Davignon, 93, is the only one alive among 10 Belgians accused by the Congolese leader's family of complicity.
News - South China Morning Post
Northern Ireland’s Gerry Adams tells bombings trial he was never in IRA
Gerry Adams, one of Northern Ireland’s most prominent political figures, told London’s High Court on Tuesday he had never been a member of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army but said he would not distance himself from the group. The ex-leader of Sinn Fein, formerly the IRA’s political wing and now the largest party in the Northern Irish Assembly, became the best-known face of the movement seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland. He later reinvented himself as a peacemaker after...
News - South China Morning Post
Why US warships’ pit stop in Malaysia is raising eyebrows
The apparent docking of two light US combat ships in Penang over the weekend has raised eyebrows among Malaysian government critics regarding the country’s position on the US-Israel war on Iran, and questions over the deployment of de-mining vessels thousands of miles from the conflict zone. The USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara were seen on Sunday at the North Butterworth Container Terminal, according to social media images and the Financial Times, which cited a US Fifth Fleet spokesperson...
