Chongming Island

Chongming
Chongming
Traditional Chinese	崇明島
Simplified Chinese	崇明岛
Literal meaning	Lofty Bright Island
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chóngmíng Dǎo
Wade–Giles	Chʻung-ming Tao

Chongming Island
Native name: 崇明岛
	Buzhendock
	The position of Chongming (red) within Shanghai; (Note that this map does not display Haiyong or Qilong)
	Chongming Island Chongming Island
Geography
Location	Pacific Ocean
Coordinates	31°40′N 121°32′E / 31.667°N 121.533°E
Administration
	People's Republic of China
City	Shanghai

Chongming (Chinese: 崇明岛), formerly romanized as Chungming, is an alluvial island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China covering 1,267 square kilometers (489 sq mi) as of 2010. Together with the islands Changxing and Hengsha, it forms Chongming District, the northernmost area of the provincial-level municipality of Shanghai. At the time of the 2010 Chinese census, its population was 660,000.

A 20-kilometer-long (12 mi) stretch of the north shore of the island is not part of Chongming District of Shanghai but are instead two pene-exclaves of Jiangsu, formed by the connection of Chongming to the formerly-separate island of Yonglongsha.

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^ Actually named for Chongming, an early settlement on the former island of Xisha that was named for its placement on relatively high and clear ground.^[1]

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[2] Actually named for Chongming, an early settlement on the former island of Xisha that was named for its placement on relatively high and clear ground.^[1]

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Native name: 崇明岛
Buzhendock
The position of Chongming (red) within Shanghai (Note that this map does not display Haiyong or Qilong)
Chongming Island Show map of China Chongming Island Show map of Shanghai
Geography
Location	Pacific Ocean
Coordinates	31°40′N 121°32′E / 31.667°N 121.533°E / 31.667; 121.533
Administration
People's Republic of China
City	Shanghai