Atlas of China
Weihai 威海Wēihǎi
The peninsula's far-east tip, a naval island and a British lease
About Weihai
Weihai holds the eastern end of the Shandong Peninsula, where Chengshantou Cape marks the easternmost tip, and is the mainland Chinese city closest to South Korea. Liugong Island, in its bay, was a base of the Beiyang Fleet, called the birthplace of China's first modern navy, and the setting of its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to 1895. Britain leased Weihaiwei from 1898 to 1930, and the British Buildings of Weihaiwei survive.
What to eat in Weihai
- Seaweed cakes (海菜粑粑)
- Sweet-potato noodles (地瓜面条)
Listed sites in Weihai
16 sites in Weihai are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Liugong Island 刘公岛 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Liugong Island is a pine-covered island of 3.15 km² at the mouth of Weihai Bay, the base of China's Beiyang Fleet in the 1890s and the place where the fleet was defeated in 1895, later used by Britain as a naval base. - Weihai Huaxia City 威海华夏城 5A scenic area · on the map
Huaxia City is a large themed scenic area in Huancui District, built from 2003 over abandoned quarries on Longshan and rated 5A in 2017. - Chengshantou Cape 成山头 4A scenic area · on the map
Chengshantou is the rocky cape at the eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, with the sea on three sides and eroded coastal cliffs. - Chishan Fahua Temple and Scenic Area 赤山 4A scenic area · on the map
Chishan Fahua Temple is a Tang-style Buddhist temple at the foot of Red Mountain near Shidao, rebuilt in the late 1980s on the site of a temple founded in 823 by the Silla general Jang Bogo, where the Japanese monk Ennin stayed in 839. - Furudonghai Cultural Park 福如东海文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
Furudonghai ('fortune like the Eastern Sea') is a modern cultural-tourism complex of 1,700 mu (about 1.1 km²) inside the Silver Beach resort, themed on fortune culture, the eastward voyages and Dongyi culture. - Huancuilou Park 环翠楼公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Huancuilou Park is a hill park in the middle of Weihai, named after the Huancui Tower, with wooded paths, viewpoints over the city and sports courts. - Likou Mountain 里口山 4A scenic area · on the map
Likou Mountain is a range of hills with peaks above 400 m on the south-western edge of Weihai, made a provincial scenic area in 2004 and described by the city as an urban mountain park. - Nahaixiang Seaside Resort 那香海 4A scenic area · on the map
Nahaixiang is a coastal leisure area on Huanhai Road in Rongcheng, with a long sandy beach, a pine belt and resort buildings behind it. - Rushan Silver Beach Resort 乳山银滩 4A scenic area · on the map
Silver Beach is a seaside resort district on the south coast of the Shandong Peninsula, named for its pale sandy beaches, which the Rushan government puts at 21.7 km. - Weihai International Bathing Beach 威海国际海水浴场 4A scenic area · on the map
The International Bathing Beach is a sandy beach about 2.8 km long on Weihai's north coast, between Majia Mountain and Yandun Mountain and backed by a pine belt. - Weihai Seafront Park Belt and Qiaoxiang Cruise 海滨生态公园风景带·侨乡号游轮 4A scenic area · on the map
This 4A listing combines a waterfront park belt on Weihai's seafront with the Qiaoxiang, a sightseeing ship that sails on Weihai Bay. - Weihai Tianmu Hot Spring Resort 天沐温泉度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
Tianmu is a hot-spring and conference resort in Zoujiachuang village, Zhangjiachan town, Wendeng District, set in wooded hills. - Xianguding Hill Park 仙姑顶 4A scenic area · on the map
Xianguding is a Daoist-themed hill park on Huanshan Road, south of central Weihai, with a temple complex, statues and small lakes among the hills. - British Buildings of Weihaiwei 威海英式建筑 National heritage site · on the map
Two surviving buildings from the British lease of Weihai (1898 to 1930), a former Chinese Regiment building and a colonial official's residence dated 1900 and 1901, stand in a compound at 1 Beishan Road in central Weihai. - Liucun Stone Tombs 留村石墓群 National heritage site · on the map
Liucun Stone Tombs are a group of Yuan-dynasty tombs faced in granite blocks, in fields west of Liucun village in Rongcheng's Ningjin sub-district, built for the Cheng family who moved here from Luoyang. - Shengjingshan Cliff Inscriptions 圣经山摩崖 National heritage site · on the map
Shengjingshan is a wooded mountain in Gejia town, Wendeng District, where cliff inscriptions dating from the Jin to Yuan dynasties are protected as a national heritage unit.
On the map
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