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| | Shanghai -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The city has had various nicknames in English, including "Paris of the East", "Queen of the Orient" (or "Pearl of the Orient"), and even "The Whore of Asia" (a reference to foreign-influenced corruption in the 1920s and 1930s, including vice, drugs and prostitution). |
 | | Before the forming of Shanghai city, Shanghai was part of Songjiang county, governed by (Click link for more info and facts about Suzhou) Suzhou (The district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)) prefecture. |
 | | Shanghai is divided into 19 county-level divisions: 18 (A region marked off for administrative or other purposes) districts and 1 (A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) county. |
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