Location

Putuo District  is located in the north western part of Shanghai. This district covers an area of 55.53 square kilometers, of which the water area is 1.65 square kilometers, and borders Zhabei District on the east, Jiading District on the west, Changning and Jing’an District on the south and Baoshan District on the north. Suzhou Creek flows through Putuo District for 14 kilometers and its coastline is 21 kilometers long.

Population

At the end of 2024, the permanent resident population of Putuo District was 1.2487 million. Among them, the registered permanent resident population was 897,900, and the migrant permanent resident population was 350,800. The population density of permanent residents was 22,500 people per square kilometer.

Location advantages

Putuo District is the starting point of the Shanghai-Nanjing development belt and an important land gateway and transportation hub connecting Shanghai to the Yangtze River Delta and the mainland. It has well-developed external transportation, with a distance of 10 kilometers from Hongqiao Transportation Hub and 50 kilometers from Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity Railway and the Metro Lines 11, 15, and the planned Line 21 realize a "zero transfer" at the Shanghai West Railway Station Integrated Transport Hub, forming a regional comprehensive three-dimensional transportation. The G2 Beijing-Shanghai Expressway runs through the district, and the S5 Shanghai-Jiaxing Expressway (urban expressway) echoes it from north to south. The G204 National Highway and G312 National Highway start from the district, reaching the Yangtze River Basin, Northeast and Northwest regions. Putuo District also boasts convenient internal transportation, with three inner, middle, and outer ring roads passing through the district along with 7 metro lines connecting various central areas of Shanghai and neighboring suburbs.