Shanghai, China is the largest city by population in the People's
Republic of China and the largest
city proper by population in the
world with 23,019,148 people. It is truly a beautiful and unique city with the
mixture of old and new, historical and modern, European and Asian influence and
the list goes on. This beautiful city sits on the Yangtze River Delta. There
are two parts to Shanghai: the Puxi area which is located on the western side
of Huangpu and there is Pudong which is the financial district Lujiazui and was
developed on the eastern bank.
The architectural is quite
eclectic. The Bund is one of Shanghai famous landmarks, located on the bank of
the Huangpu River. It beautifully displays early 20th-century
architectural. I remember looking at it for the first time and being amazed of
the beauty. My friends and I would go to the bridge in the middle of the night,
and we would look on one side and see The Bund and the other would be the skyscrapers
of Pudong. Some other famous landmarks are the Shanghai World Financial Center,
Jinmao Tower and the Oriental Pearl Tower; I had the pleasure of going up to
the observatory of all three buildings.
Shanghai was my home for five months while studying
abroad during my sophomore year of university. I also had the opportunity to
intern with a NGO while studying. During my five months in Shanghai, I made
amazing friends and memories that I will cherish for a life-time. The city of
23 million will always have a piece of my heart and I hope to one day return to
a city I once called home.
(Some photos are not mine because I did not have a good camera at the time to really capture Shanghai, but each of the photo are link to the site I got them from)
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