Islands of Shanghai

The islands of Shanghai are those under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai municipal government, comprising three large inhabited islands and a shifting number of smaller, uninhabited ones. Most are alluvial islands in the Yangtze River Delta in China, though some islands in Hangzhou Bay off Jinshan District are also administered by Shanghai; because the alluvial islands are geologically young, their number varies over time, and in 2006 the citys nineteen uninhabited islands covered 226.27 square kilometers with a combined coastline of 309 kilometers.