With over 23 million inhabitants, Shanghai is at present China's most populated city.

These two pictures show the Pudong area of this mega city as seen from the Bund (fig.).

In these pictures are two of the city's more famous skyscrapers, i.e. the 492 meters tall Shanghai World Financial Center (fig.) and the 468 meters high Oriental Pearl Tower (fig.). The 421 meters high Jin Mao Tower (fig.) is here only partially visible. Whereas in English the verb to shanghai means ‘to force someone to do something or go somewhere’ or ‘to enroll or lure (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means’, translated from Chinese Shanghai (上海) literally means ‘above the sea’ or ‘on/upon the sea’, referring to its coastal position.