Chongming
Chongming District is the northernmost district of the provincial-level municipality of Shanghai.
Chongming consists of three low-lying inhabited alluvial islands at the mouth of the Yangtze north of the Shanghai peninsula: Chongming, Changxing, and Hengsha. Following its massive expansion in the 20th century, Chongming is now the 2nd-largest island administered by the People's Republic of China and the 3rd-largest in Greater China, after Hainan. Chongming does not, however, administer all of the island: owing to its continual expansion from sediment deposited by the Yangtze, it has merged with formerly separate islands and now includes Jiangsu province's pene-exclave townships of Haiyong and Qilong. Chongming proper covers an area of 1,411 km2 (545 sq mi) and had a population of 637,921 at the time of the Census 2020.
Getting around Chongming the local way
- Get inThere are ferries connecting all the islands, and connecting the islands to both sides of the Yangtze.
- Get inThere are a number of small ports, used mainly for ferries and fishing boats.
From Wikivoyage: Shanghai/Chongming, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Joshua Wickerham from The Americas, China (CC BY-SA 2.0), Wikimedia Commons.