The islands of Shanghai are those under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai municipal government. They comprise three large inhabited islands and a shifting number of smaller, uninhabited ones. Most are alluvial islands in the Yangtze River Delta in

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, although a number of islands in Hangzhou Bay off Jinshan District are also administered by Shanghai. The alluvial islands are relatively young and their number varies over time. In 2006, the city's 19 uninhabited islands covered , with a total coastline length of . The

Yangshan Yangshan could refer to the following places in China: *Yangshan Port (洋山港), part of Port of Shanghai * Yangshan Park Station (羊山公园站), a station on the Line No. 2 of the Nanjing Metro, opened on 28 May 2010 *Yangshan County Yangs ...

area of the

Port of Shanghai The Port of Shanghai (), located in the vicinity of Shanghai, comprises a deep-sea port and a river port. The main port enterprise in Shanghai, the Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), was established during the reconstitution of the S ...

is also located on two islands, Greater and

Lesser Yangshan Lesser, from Eliezer (, "Help/Court of my God"), is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolf Lesser (1851–1926), German physician * Aleksander Lesser (1814–1884), Polish painter and art critic * Anton Lesser (born 1952), Briti ...

in Hangzhou Bay, but these are administered as part of Zhejiang's

Shengsi County Shengsi County is a CPRC, county in the northeast of Zhejiang province consisting of an archipelago islands located to the east of Hangzhou Bay. It is under the administration of Zhoushan City and is the easternmost county-level division in the ...

Chongming County

All three inhabited islands of Shanghai are

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s in the Yangtze estuary between the

Municipality of Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

and

Jiangsu Province Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its ca ...

. They are administered as Chongming County, with its

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at Chengqiao on Chongming Island. The county was added to Shanghai from Jiangsu in 1958 and remains mostly rural: In 2008, its registered population of included farmers. Chongming Island () ("Chongming County" in the ''Encyclopedia of Shanghai'', pp. 50 ff.
Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers (Shanghai), 2010. Hosted by the Municipality of Shanghai.) is now the second-largest island of mainland China (after Hainan). The natural expansion of the island has been greatly accelerated by reclamation projects, which doubled its size between 1950 and 2010. This growth caused it to absorb the former island of

Yonglongsha Yonglongsha, sometimes translated as the Yonglong Shoal or Yonglong Sands, was a former island in the north channel of the Yangtze River above Chongming in eastern China. It was also known as Yongfengsha and Hefengsha.Office of Shanghai Chronicl ...

, creating a long

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of Jiangsu on its northern shore administered as the townships of Haiyong and Qilong. The island was connected to Changxing by the Yangtze Bridge in 2009 and to Qidong in Jiangsu by the Chongqi Bridge in 2011. The

Chonghai Bridge The Chonghai Bridge (simplified Chinese: 崇海大桥; traditional Chinese: 崇海大橋; pinyin: ''Chónghǎi Dàqiáo'') is a proposed bridge to span the northern distributary at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the People's Republic of China. ...

, to

Haimen Haimen (, Qihai dialect: , Shanghai: ) is a district of Nantong, Jiangsu province, with a population of approximately 1 million. It is located at the opposite side of the Yangtze River to Shanghai and is directly north of Chongming Island except f ...

in Jiangsu, remains under constructionMajor Construction Completed on Chongqi Bridge
. ''

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''. 21 Sept 2011. Accessed 19 Oct 2011. and plans for Shanghai's S7 (Huchong) Expressway call for the creation of a bridge directly from Baoshan District to Chengqiao. Changxing Island () (Shanghai Statistical Bureau Yearbook 2007
/ref>) lies between Chongming and Shanghai in the southern channel of the Yangtze opposite the mouth of the Huangpu, the major river of central Shanghai. It is connected to Chongming by the Yangtze Bridge and Shanghai's Pudong New Area by the

Yangtze Tunnel The Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge is a bridge–tunnel complex across the south fork of the Yangtze River near the river mouth in Shanghai. The tunnel connects the Pudong District of Shanghai on the south bank of the river with Chang ...

. Hengsha Island () () lies to Changxing's east and is connected with the mainland and other islands by ferry service.

Pudong New Area

Jiuduansha Jiuduansha is a collection of four intertidal wetland shoals at the mouth of China's Yangtze River. They are administered as an island region of the municipality of Shanghai's Pudong New Area. These shoals and the submerged land surrounding th ...

is an intertidal wetland. The area above sea level comprises four major

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s: Upper, Middle, Lower, and South Jiuduansha. These shoals and the waters surrounding them to a depth of (occupying an additional ) form the

Jiuduansha Wetland Nature Reserve Jiuduansha is a collection of four intertidal wetland shoals at the mouth of China's Yangtze River. They are administered as an island region of the municipality of Shanghai's Pudong New Area. These shoals and the submerged land surrounding ...

, a nationally-protected area of Shanghai. The shoals began forming during the Yangtze floods of the late 1940s and early 1950s,Overview
". The Shanghai Jiuduansha Wetland Nature Reserve (Shanghai), 2014. but were developed and protected as a replacement for the wetlands of eastern Pudong during the construction of Shanghai's

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in the 1990s. The cordgrass introduced in 1995 has succeeded in stabilizing the shoals but is now considered to be highly

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, displacing the native reeds and bullrushesPratolongo, Paula & al
"Temperate Coastal Wetlands: Morphology, Sediment Processes, and Plant Communities" in ''Coastal Wetlands: An Integrated Ecosystem Approach'', p. 105.
Elsevier (Amsterdam), 2009.Scott, David B
''Coastal Wetlands of the World: Geology, Ecology, Distribution, and Applications'', pp. 229 f.
Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge), 2014. and degrading parts of the wetlands."Fourth Island Wetland Emerging", pp. 1–2.
'' Shanghai Daily''. 8 Dec 2009. Hosted at China.org. A wetland museum, as well as a Science Popularization Park on about of the island, are planned to increase public awareness and support.

Jinshan District

Dajinshan Island ( t , s , p ''Dàjīnshān Dǎo'', "Greater Gold Mountain Island"), Xiaojinshan Island ("Lesser Gold Mountain Island"), and Fushan Island in Jinshan District are nature reserves under city jurisdiction.''China Daily''
/ref> They are located in Hangzhou Bay. Dajinshan has the highest point in Shanghai with an elevation of .

References

External links

"Islands and Shoals of Shanghai"
at the Office of Shanghai Chronicles {{DEFAULTSORT:Islands Shanghai Yangtze River Delta

Chongming County

Pudong New Area

Jinshan District

See also

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