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also spelled Shang-hai, city, and province-level shih (municipality), east-central China. It is one of the world's largest seaports and a major industrial and commercial centre of China. The city is located on the coast of the East China Sea between the mouth of the Yangtze River to the north and the bays of Hangchow and Yü-p'an to the south. The municipality covers a total area of 2,383 square miles (6,185 square kilometres), which includes the city itself, surrounding suburbs, and an agricultural hinterland; it is also China's most populous urban area.

--Excerpted from the EB
Shanghai was the first Chinese port to be opened to Western trade, and it long dominated the nation's commerce. Since the Communist victory in 1949, however, it has become an industrial giant whose products supply China's growing domestic demands. The city has also undergone extensive physical changes with the establishment of industrial suburbs and housing complexes, the improvementof public works, and the provision of parks and other recreational facilities. Shanghai has attempted to eradicatethe economic and psychological legacies of its exploited past through physical and social transformation to support its major role in the modernization of China.