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| | Shanghai : City Layout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Shànghai, with one of the largest urban populations on Earth (almost 14 million permanent residents, plus 3 million registered migrants), is divided by the Huángpu River into Pudong (east of the river) and Puxi (west of the river). |
 | | After the First Opium War in 1842 opened Shànghai up to foreign powers, the British, French, Germans, Americans, and others moved in, carving for themselves their own "concessions" where they were subject not to the laws of the Chinese government but to those established by their own governing councils. |
 | | In contrast to the colonial and historical sights of Puxi, the district of Pudong, lying east of the Huángpu River, is all about Shànghai's future. |
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