Hengsha Island

Hengsha
The position of Hengsha (red) within Shanghai (Note that this map does not display the enclaves of Jiangsu on Chongming)
Hengsha Island
Traditional Chinese	橫沙島
Simplified Chinese	横沙岛
Literal meaning	Heng Sands Island
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Héngshā Dǎo
Hengsha Township
Traditional Chinese	橫沙鄉
Simplified Chinese	横沙乡
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Héngshā Xiāng

Hengsha (横沙岛, Shanghainese: Waan So Tau) is a low-lying alluvial island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China. Together with the islands of Chongming and Changxing, it forms Chongming District, the northernmost area of the provincial-level municipality of Shanghai. Its population was 33,400 in 2008.