The People's Republic of China (中华, Zhōnghuá in Chinese) has a lengthy coastline, many large harbors, and a large number of lighthouses. During the colonial period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Western powers occupied a number of locations in China and built lighthouses, many of which survive. In more recent years the People's Republic has developed modern ports throughout the country and built many lighthouses to serve them. The country is divided into 23 provinces and 11 other province-level regions of various special types. Shāndōng (formerly spelled Shantung) is a province of northern China lying directly across the Yellow Sea (Huáng Hǎi) from South Korea. The province includes the Shāndōng Peninsula (Shāndōng Bandǎo), which separates the Yellow Sea from the Bohai Sea (Bó Hǎi). As a result the province has long coastlines facing north on the Bohai Sea and southeast on the Yellow Sea. Shāndōng is divided into sixteen prefectural-level cities. This page includes lighthouses of the prefectural-level city of Wēihǎi, which occupies the eastern end of the peninsula. Also included are lighthouses in the county-level city of Hǎiyáng southwest of Wēihǎi on the south coast of the prefectural-level city of Yāntái. Because of its strategic location and fine ports, the Shāndōng Peninsula was a target for foreign penetration during the colonial period. The urban area of Wēihǎi was a leased British territory known as Wei-Hai-Wei from 1898 to 1930, and Yāntái also had a large European presence. The entire province was occupied by Japan during World War II (1938-1945). There are many languages and dialects spoken in China, but Standard Chinese, often called Mandarin, is official. The pīnyīn system for transliterating Chinese into Latin characters is now the international standard but some locations continue to be known also under the spellings of older transliteration systems. The Chinese word for a lighthouse is dēngtǎ (灯塔). In Standard Chinese jiāo (formerly chiao) is a reef or rock, jiǎo is a cape or headland, dǎo (tao) is an island; yǔ (tsu) or tuózi ("lump") is a small island, hǎi is a sea, wān is a bay, hǎixiá is a strait, hé or jiāng is a river, hékǒu ("river mouth") is an estuary, and gǎng (kang) is a harbor. Lighthouses in China are maintained by the PRC Maritime Safety Administration. The administration is organized in four regional administrations; Shāndōng lighthouses fall under the Tiānjīn MSA and its district office at Yāntái. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. CN numbers are Chinese light list numbers. Admiralty numbers are from volume P of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 112.
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Wēihǎi Prefecture Lighthouses
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![]() Jīmíngdǎo Light, Róngchéng, March 2021 thepapaer.cn travel development photo (no longer online) |
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![]() Mòyédǎo Light, Wánglián District, Róngchéng PRC Maritime Safety Administration photo |
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![]() Sūshāndǎo Light, Róngchéng, September 2010 anonymous ZOL Forum photo (no longer online) |
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Yāntái Prefecture South Coast Lighthouses
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Information available on lost lighthouses:
Notable faux lighthouses:
Adjoining pages: Northwest: Northern Shāndōng (Yāntái Area) | Southwest: Southeast Shāndōng (Qīngdǎo)
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Posted March 31, 2008. Checked and revised November 11, 2024. Lighthouses 47. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.