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Shanghai (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 31 13 20 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 31.2222 decimal degrees |
| Long: 121 27 29 E degrees minutes |
Long: 121.4581 decimal degrees |
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Note: Largest city in China; prospered after 1840; one of first five treaty ports; attacked by Japanese 1932; scene of severe fighting during Japanese-Chinese War 1937; controlled by Japanese 1941; restored to China 1945; taken by Communists 1949. |
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| Shanghai (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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| Shanghai (Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones),U)
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| Shang-hai (C,V)
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| Schanghai (C,V)
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| Chang-hai (C,V)
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| Shang-hai-shih (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| 上海 (C,V,Chinese,U)
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| שנחאי (C,U,Hebrew )
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Shanghai (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| city (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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| commercial center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| port (C) |
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opened 1842 |
| educational center (C) |
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| treaty port (C) |
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