Yantai
37°27′53″N 121°26′52″E / 37.4646°N 121.4478°E
Yantai
烟台市 Yentai | |
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Downtown Yantai Three Harmony Taoism Pagoda Port in Longkou Yantai Hill Scenic Area Tianhou Temple Moon Bay | |
Location of Yantai City Jurisdiction in Shandong | |
Yantai Location in China | |
| Coordinates (Yantai Museum): 37°32′14″N 121°23′36″E / 37.5371°N 121.3932°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 | |
| 13,739.9 km2 (5,305.0 sq mi) | |
| Population (2023 census) | |
| 7,102,100 | |
| • Density | 516.90/km2 (1,338.8/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 4,233,100 |
| • Metro | 2,264,554 |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 1.1351 trillion US$ 165.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 161,300 US$ 22,600 |
| 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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postage stamp of Chefoo (called by the Europeans only) | |||||||
| Zhifu | |||||||
| Chinese | 芝罘 | ||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhīfú | ||||||
| Postal | Chefoo | ||||||
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Yantai, formerly known by the Europeans as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in 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 7,102,116 during the 2020 census, of whom 3,184,299 lived in the built-up area made up of the 5 urban districts of Zhifu, Laishan, Fushan, Muping, and Penglai.