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Shanghai
provincial-level municipality in China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Sangai.
Shanghai (Chinese: 上海, Shanghainese pronunciation: [zɑ̃.hɛ] (listen); Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂâŋ.xài] (
listen)) is the biggest city in China and one of the world's largest cities. It had about 24,000,000 people in 2017. It is a special province-level city in China ("municipality"), like Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing.
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