shanghai geographic location

Shanghai is located in east longitude 120 degrees 51 points to 122 degrees 12 points, north latitude 30 degrees Shanghai 40 points to 31 degrees between 53 points, is located in the west coast of the Pacific, Asia continent along the east, the north and the south China coast center, the Yangtze river and the huangpu river into the sea meet. The north boundary Yangtze river, east faces the east China sea, the south by the hangzhou bay, west meets jiangsu and zhejiang provinces. Is part of the Yangtze river delta alluvial plain, the average height is 4 meters above sea level. The western one day masan, XueShan, phoenix mountain, etc monadnock, tianma for Shanghai land peak, elevation 99.8 meters, made a stele "sheshan top". A big sea jinshan, jinshan, small fushan (the tortoise hill), sheshan island, little mountain island and rock island. Large jinshan elevation 103.4 meters, is the territory of Shanghai highest non artificial point. To the north of the Yangtze river in Shanghai RuHaiChu, chongming island, changxing island, cross sand island three islands. Chongming island for the third largest island in China, by the Yangtze river alluvial sediment traps down and become, covers an area of 1041.21 square kilometers, elevation 3.5 meters to 4.5 meters. Changxing island covers an area of 88.54 square kilometers, cross sand island covers an area of 55.74 square kilometers.