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Shangluo
Shangluo (商洛市, Shangzhou) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shaanxi, China, in the southern Qinling Mountains bordering Henan and Hubei; named for Mount Shang and the Luo River, it has one district and six counties, about 2.5 million people, and a nature- and wellness-oriented economy.
Shangluo power station
Shangluo power station (商洛发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Shahezi Town, Shangluo, Shaanxi, China, planned as four 660 MW ultra-supercritical units, with its first two operating since 2018.
Shango
Shango (Ṣàngó) is the Yoruba orisha of thunder, lightning, fire, and justice, remembered as a deified alaafin of Oyo. Known as Changó in Cuban Santería, Xangô in Candomblé, and Shango in Trinidad; symbolized by the double axe and oshe staffs.
Shango Patera
Shango Patera is a roughly 90.8-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 32.46N, 100.51W, named in 2000 for the Yoruba thunder god of Nigeria.
Shangqing School
The Shangqing School (上清派), or Maoshan lineage, was a Daoist tradition based on scriptures revealed to Yang Xi in the 360s near Nanjing, seated on Mount Mao.
Shangqiu Minquan power station
Shangqiu Minquan power station (国电商丘民权热电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Minquan County, Shangqiu, Henan, China, with two 630 MW units online since 2008.
Shangqiu Shi
Shangqiu Shi (商丘市) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan, China, at the junction of Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu, with about 7.8 million residents.
Shangqiu Zoo
Shangqiu Zoo (商丘动物园), inside Shangqiu People's Park, Liangyuan District, Henan, is the city's only operating zoo. Founded 1959; 35,000 m²; 40+ species; known for 20+ Siberian tigers and a leading breeding program.
Shangrao
Shangrao (上饶) is a prefecture-level city in northeast Jiangxi, China, bordering Zhejiang, Fujian, and Anhui; 22,791 km², 6.49 million residents (2020), GDP 393.6 billion yuan (2025), home to UNESCO Mount Sanqingshan and Wuyuan.
Shangrao power station
Shangrao power station (国家电投上饶发电厂) is a 2,000 MW coal-fired power station in Chating Town, Shangrao, Jiangxi, China, whose two 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units entered commercial operation in 2025 and 2026.
Shangri-La
Shangri-La, coined by James Hilton in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, is a fictional Himalayan paradise derived from the Tibetan legend of Shambhala; Zhongdian County, Yunnan, was renamed Shangri-La in 2001.
Shangri-La Dialogue
Shangri-La Dialogue (Asia Security Summit): annual IISS-organized defense summit in Singapore since 2002, a Track 1.5 forum for Asia-Pacific defense ministers and a barometer of US-China tensions.
Shangri-La Frontier
Shangri-La Frontier (シャングリラ・フロンティア) is Katarina's web novel since 2017 and Ryosuke Fuji's Weekly Shonen Magazine manga since 2020 about kusoge hunter Sunraku in a 30-million-player VR game; won 47th Kodansha Manga Award, anime by C2C since 2023, season 3 in 2027.
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is a luxury hotel group founded by Robert Kuok in 1971, controlled by the Kuok family and chaired by Hui Kuok.
Shangrila Paradise
Shangrila Paradise (香格里拉樂園) is a former 40-hectare theme park in Zaociao, Miaoli County, Taiwan, opened 1990, famous for the game show Baai Zaan Baai Sing, acquired by CMP Group and redeveloped into CMP Village glamping.
Shangshu Sheng of Jin
The Shangshu Sheng of Jin was the central secretariat of the Jurchen Jin dynasty, standing alone as the sole department of state from the Zhenglong era onward.
Shangu Ji
Shangu Ji (山谷集, "Valley Collection") is the collected works of the Northern Song poet and calligrapher Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), leader of the Jiangxi school, transmitted through inner, outer, and supplementary collections.
Shanguo
Shanguo (善果) is a Buddhist monk of Song-era Chinese Chan Buddhism, tentatively dated 1079–1152. His dates, lineage, and monasteries remain unresolved, since Song lamp records and gazetteers do not securely document him.
Shangwan Coal Mine
Shangwan Coal Mine (上湾煤矿) is an underground longwall coal mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, known for its 12401 longwall face, one of the world's largest mining height faces at 8.8 m.
Shangxianhe Wetland Rose Garden
Shangxianhe Wetland Rose Garden (尚贤河湿地玫瑰园), a small rose and climbing-rose garden in Shangxianhe Wetland Park, Binhu District, Wuxi, China; reached via bus 130, 135, or 156 to Xuntangqiao stop, popular for spring blooms and wedding photography.
Shangyao Cloud Health (上药云健康（上海医药大健康云商股份有限公司）)
Shangyao Cloud Health (上药云健康) is a Chinese "Internet+" prescription-drug retail platform founded in Shanghai in 2015 by Shanghai Pharmaceuticals, operating the Yiyao specialty pharmacy network.
Shangyu
Shangyu (上虞区) is a district of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, south of the Qiantang River, about 1,402 km² with roughly 0.8 million people; an early origin of celadon, home of the Butterfly Lovers heroine, with a 2025 GDP of 146.36 billion yuan.
Shangyuquan Coal Mine
Shangyuquan Coal Mine (上榆泉煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Hequ County, Xinzhou, Shanxi, China, in production since 2006 and verified at 7 million tonnes per year since 2021.
Shanhai Pass (山海关)
Shanhai Pass (山海关) is a fortified Ming Great Wall pass in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China, built in 1381 where the Wall meets the Bohai Sea, known as the "First Pass Under Heaven."
Shanhou Folk Culture Village
Shanhou Folk Culture Village (山后民俗文化村), also called Shanhou 18 Buildings, in Jinsha Township, Kinmen: eighteen 1900 Minnan houses built by merchants Wang Guozhen and Wang Jingxiang, now a free folk museum village.
Shanhu Yanfang
珊瑚验方 (Tibetan: 朱如道沙拉), a late-19th-century Mongolian medical formulary written in Tibetan verse by 伊喜当增旺吉拉 of Yeke Juu League, with 220 formulas and 38 processing methods; source of classic Mongolian formulas such as 明月汤.
Shanhui
Shanhui, also known as Jiashan Shanhui (善会, 805–881), was a Tang-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk, Dharma heir of Chuanzi Decheng, who founded Lingquan yuan on Mount Jia in Lizhou.
Shanhui Fan
Shanhui Fan (范汕洄) is a Chinese-born American physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for foundational work in photonic crystal theory and radiative sky cooling.
Shani (शनि)
Shani (शनि, Shanaishchara, Shanidev) is the Hindu navagraha deity personifying Saturn, son of Surya and Chhaya, feared dispenser of sadhe sati and revered as god of justice, worshipped on Saturdays, notably at the doorless Shani Shingnapur temple.
Shani Davis
Shani Davis, born 1982 in Chicago, is an American former speed skater and the first Black athlete to win individual Winter Olympic gold, in 2006.