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The Bund
The Bund or Waitan (; Shanghainese: nga3thae1) is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. 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 the highly modern skyscrapers of Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. Building heights are restricted in this area.
==Name==
The word "bund" means an embankment or an embanked quay. The word comes from the Persian word ''band'', through Hindustani, meaning an embankment, levee or dam (a cognate of English terms "bind", "bond" and "band", and the German word "Bund", etc.). Mumbai's Apollo Bunder and city names like Bandar Abbas and Banda Aceh share the same etymology. Various "bunds" in East Asia may therefore be named after the bunds/levees in Baghdad along the Tigris, the name brought there when the Baghdadi Jews such as the prominent Sassoon family settled their business in Shanghai and other port cities in East Asia the 19th century and built heavily on their harbours. In these Chinese port cities, the English term came to mean, especially, the embanked quay along the shore. In English, "Bund" is pronounced to rhyme with "fund".〔"''Bund''" Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; online version November 2010. ; accessed 10 February 2011.〕
There are numerous sites in India, China, and Japan which are called "bunds" (e.g., the ''Yokohama Bund''). However, "The Bund", without qualification as to location, usually refers to this stretch of embanked riverfront in Shanghai.
The Chinese name for the Bund is unrelated in meaning: it means literally the "outer bank," referring to the Huangpu River, because this part of the riverfront was located farther downstream than the "inner bank" area adjacent to the old walled city of Shanghai.
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