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Yantai
Prefecture-level city in Shandong, People's Republic of China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yantai
烟台市 Yentai | |
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From top, left to right: Yantai Skyline; Port in Longkou; Yantai Mountain; Three Harmony Taoism Pagoda, Taishan; Tianhou Temple; Moon Bay | |
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![]() Location of Yantai City Jurisdiction in Shandong | |
Coordinates (Yantai Museum): 37°32′14″N 121°23′36″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Shandong |
County-level divisions | 12 |
Townships-level divisions | 148 |
Settled as a barrack | 1398 |
Open as a trade port (CHEFOO) | 22 August 1861 |
Settled as a city | 19 January 1938 |
Settled as a prefecture level city | 30 August 1983 |
Municipal seat | Laishan District |
Government | |
• CPC Secretary | Jiang Cheng (江成) |
• Mayor | Zheng Deyan (郑德雁) |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 13,739.9 km2 (5,305.0 sq mi) |
Population (2023 census) | |
• Prefecture-level city | 7,102,100 |
• Density | 520/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
• Urban | 4,233,100 |
• Metro | 2,264,554 |
GDP[1] | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 1.0162 trillion US$ 147.176 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 143,971 US$ 20,254.54 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 264000-265800 |
Area code | 535 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-SD-06 |
License Plate | 鲁F & 鲁Y |
Website | www |
Yantai | |||||||||||
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![]() "Yantai" in Chinese | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 烟台 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 煙臺 煙台 | ||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Yāntái | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | "Smoke Tower" | ||||||||||
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Former names | |||||||
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![]() A Qing-era postage stamp from Zhifu ("Chefoo") | |||||||
Zhifu | |||||||
Chinese | 芝罘 | ||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhīfú | ||||||
Postal | Chefoo | ||||||
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Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the southwest and Weihai on the east, with sea access to both the Bohai Sea (via the Laizhou Bay and the Bohai Strait) and the Yellow Sea (from both north and south sides of the Shandong Peninsula). It is the largest fishing seaport in Shandong. Its population was 6,968,202 during the 2010 census, of whom 2,227,733 lived in the built-up area made up of the 4 urban districts of Zhifu, Muping, Fushan and Laishan.