What is "shangdu"

Shangdu , also known as Xanadu (; Mongolian: Šandu), was the capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China, before he decided to move his throne to the Jin dynasty capital of Zhōngdū , which he renamed Khanbaliq, present-day Beijing. Shangdu then became his summer capital. Shangdu (Xanadu) was visited by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo in about 1275, and was destroyed in 1369 by the Ming army under Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1797 historical accounts of the city inspired the famous poem Kubla Khan by the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, the summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty founded by Kublai Khan

Shangdu may also refer to:

• Shangdu, Xilin Gol , a town in the Plain Blue Banner of Xilin Gol league, Inner Mongolia, China
• Shangdu County , a county of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China