What city is Magic Capital?

Magic Capital was one of the nicknames of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Compared with western names such as Shanghai, the largest city in the Far East, and Paris in the East, Magic Capital was the customary name of Shanghai by the Japanese at that time. The word "Magic Capital" first appeared in the best-selling novel "Magic Capital" by Shao Feng Muramatsu, a famous Japanese writer.

Location context

Shanghai is located between east longitude120 52' and north latitude12212', with a land area of 6,340.5 square kilometers, located on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the eastern edge of the Asian continent, the midpoint between the north and south coasts of China, and the intersection of the Yangtze River and Huangpu River. It borders the Yangtze River in the north, the East China Sea in the east, Hangzhou Bay in the south and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the west.

Shanghai is a part of the alluvial plain in the Yangtze River Delta, with an average elevation of about 2. 19 meters. The highest altitude is Dajinshan Island in Hangzhou Bay, Jinshan District, with an altitude of 103.70 meters.

There are relics of tianmashan, Xue Shan and Phoenix Mountain in the west, and tianmashan is the highest point on the land, with an altitude of 99.8 meters. There is a stone tablet "the top of Sheshan". There are rock islands such as Dajinshan, Xiaojinshan, Fushan (Guishan), Sheshan Island and Xiaoyangshan Island in the sea area.