People's Square

People's Square
The southwest corner of People's Square seen from the Urban Planning Museum
Simplified Chinese人民广场
Traditional Chinese人民廣場
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRénmín Guǎngchǎng

People's Square (Chinese: 人民广场) is a large public square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai. It is south of Nanjing Road (West) and north of Huaihai Road (East).

People's Square is the site of Shanghai's municipal government headquarters building and the standard reference point for measurement of distance of almost all highways in the Shanghai municipality is set in the north of the square, near the fountain.

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