Shangyu, Shaoxing (chn)

Shangyu, Shaoxing

Shangyu, Shaoxing ranks 5,854th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Babelsberg, Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, and Henan. Memorable people born in Shangyu, Shaoxing include Wang Chong, Huang Fu, and Xie Jin. Memorable people who died in Shangyu, Shaoxing include Xie Jin. Shangyu, Shaoxing has been the birth place of many mathematicians, and politicians and the death place of many film directors. Shangyu, Shaoxing is located in China.

Shangyu District is a district of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing in the northeast of Zhejiang province, China. At the 2010 census, its population in the built-up area was 779,412, up from 722,523 in the 2000 census. Shangyu is roughly fifty kilometers from north to south and about thirty kilometers from east to west. It makes up about one-fourth of the area of Shaoxing prefecture. Shangyu District is not part of the Hangzhou-Shaoxing built-up area as some countryside still prevent the city from being conurbated until now. Read more on Wikipedia