Pudong
/ˌpuːˈdɒŋ/noun
A district and former county east of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China.
Did you know?Pudong was largely farmland and marshland until the 1990s, when the Chinese government designated it for rapid development and transformed it into a global financial center.
Etymological Timeline
Classical Chinese
Chinese
浦
“Riverbank, riverside, or water’s edge”
Classical Chinese
Chinese
東
“East; the direction of the rising sun”
Modern Chinese
Mandarin
浦東 / 浦东 (Pǔdōng)
“The area east of the Huangpu River”
19th–20th Century
Chinese
浦東
“The geographic area across the Huangpu from Shanghai’s historic urban core”
1990
Chinese
浦東新區 / 浦东新区 (Pǔdōng Xīnqū)
“Pudong New Area, a state-designated development district”
Modern English
English
Pudong
“The district of Shanghai, especially its modern financial and commercial zone”