Shandong Travel Guide

Shandong is situated at the lower reaches of the Mother River of China, the Yellow River, and faces the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Seas to the east. Opposite the Korean Peninsula and Japan, it borders with Hebei Province to the northwest, Henan Province to the southwest and Anhui Province and Jiangsu Province to the south. Shandong Province together with Liaoning Province (the Liandong Peninsula) forms the crescent-shaped Bohai Gulf. As the juncture of North China and East China, the Yellow River Economic Belt and the Bohai Ring Economic Area, Shandong is a province of strategically economic significance in China.

Its capital city is Jinan, which is praised as being the City of Springs. There are over 100 springs in the city, of which 72 springs are famous. Baotu Spring, or Spurting Spring, the best one among the famous 72 springs, is known as The First Spring under Heaven. It is the symbol of Jinan. >> Check out our tours to Jinan

Shandong is abundant in attractive mountains, rivers and lakes, which providestourists unique sightseeing routes. It is crowned by Mount Tai with an altitude of 1,545 meters, and the Yellow River Delta of northeast Shandong is the lowest point with an altitude of two to ten meters. In addition to Mount Tai, other famous mountains include Mount Lao, Mount Kunyu, Mount Meng, Mount Lu and Mount Ya. Besides the Mother River of China, the Yellow River, there are in total over one hundred rivers in Shandong, whose trunk streams are all longer than fifty meters. Shandong boasts one of the ten biggest freshwater lakes in China, Nansi Lake, which covers an area of 1,357 square kilometers.

Centuries-old history and lots of cultural relics endows Shandong with abundant tourist resources. There are hundreds of places of cultural interest; more than 13,000 ancient pieces of architecture and historic sites, among which 27 are key historical relics under national protection and 379 are under provincial protection.

• Chinese Name: 山东
• Chinese Pinyin: shān dōng
• English Name: Shandong
• Location: North China 
• Language: Chinese
• Capital City: Jinan
• Time Zone: (UTC+8)
• Area: 157,800 sq. km. (60,927 sq. mi.)
• Population: 94.17 million