How many miles is it between Peking and Pootung?
Here it is, you’re looking for Pudong. “The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East-1 Zhongshan Road) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District.” Here’s Pudong on a map: http://www.geonames.org/1798524/pudong.h… Pudong: 31° 14′ 22″ N, 121° 30′ 14″ E Beijing (city center): 39° 54′ 50″ N, 116° 23′ 30″ E Great circle distance (“as the crow flies”): 1067.7 km (663.4 miles) Driving distance (see last source for map and directions): 909.2 mi, 17 hr 58 min Pootung shouldn’t have been that hard to find. GeoNames is bad about that. It shows it as a variant spelling, but it doesn’t come up in a search. The NGA’s GNS search DOES find the variants. It isn’t a matter of spelling it “right”, there are 100 different methods of romanization of the Chinese language, each with different spelling.
