Yantai

Yantai is a city in Shandong province, China. It is on the coast facing the Huang Hai. The average annual temperature is 12°C. The annual rainfall is 20 mm.

The city used to be called "Chefoo" because an island close to the city was named "Chefoo". The name of the city means "Smokey Tower" (yan - smoke, tai - tower). The city is named "Yantai" because in 1398 the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty, built watch towers nearby to tell everyone if Japanese pirates were coming.

In 2008 the city of Yantai and the area around it had 6,516,900 people living in it. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 343.4 billionRMB while the GDP divided by the population was 49,012RMB.

Yantai Media

• MoonBay.jpg

  Moon Bay in Yantai

• Yantai - Old German Post Office.jpg

  Original German Post Office in Yantai's old town

• Chefoo lace school.jpg

  Lacemakers in Chefoo, 1902

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  Yantai (labelled as YEN-T'AI (CHEFOO) 煙台code: zh is deprecated ) (1953)

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  Map of Yantai (labeled as YEN-T'AI (CHEFOO))

• 龍口海濱.jpg

  Beach in Longkou, Yantai, Shandong

• Chateau-Changyu.jpg

  Modern day Chateau Changyu, Yantai, Shandong

• 煙台市毓璜頂醫院.jpg

  Yuhuangding Hospital in Yantai, Shandong

• 山東省煙台市第一中學.jpg

  山東省煙台市第一中學

• Yantai Ship Mast.jpg

  View of Ship mast from top of hill in foreign concession, Author: S.T. Fullerton