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 People's Republic 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 northwestern corner of the province facing the Bohai Sea in the prefectural-level cities of Bīnzhōu, Dōngyíng, and Wéifāng and the western portion of the prefectural-level city of Yāntái. 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, "light tower"). 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 ("sea valley") 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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Bīnzhōu Prefecture Lighthouses
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Dōngyíng Prefecture Lighthouses
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![]() Northeast Breakwater Light, Dōngyíng, December 2017, Dōngyíng Port photo (no longer online) |
Wéifāng Prefecture Lighthouses
Yāntái Prefecture Northwest Coast (Láizhōu and Lóngkǒu) Lighthouses
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![]() Láizhōu Shān Light, Láizhōu, May 2013 ex-Panoramio Creative Commons photo by gofman3 |
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Adjoining pages: North: Tianjin Area | East: Yāntái Area
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Posted March 31, 2008. Checked and revised October 27, 2024. Lighthouses 40. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.