Weihai

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Weihai

Total population

2,804,800

Coordinates37.51°, 122.12°

Demographic figures from National Bureau of Statistics of China. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Weihai, formerly Weihaiwei, is a prefecture-level city and major seaport city in the easternmost Shandong province of China. It borders Yantai to the west and the Yellow Sea to the east, and is the closest mainland Chinese city to South Korea.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Lau Dan

Hong Kong actor

Dong Zhiming

Chinese paleontologist (1937–2024)

Q

Qi Wusheng

Chinese footballer

S

Sun Wensheng

Chinese politician

W

Wang Dongning

Chinese footballer

C

Chin Han

Hong Kong actor and director (b. 1938)

H

Han Chengyu

Chinese actor

L

Liu Guoke

Chinese wrestler

Y

Yu Jinglian

Chinese association football player

M

Miao Bo

Chinese basketball player (born 1974)

Y

Yu Ying

Chinese basketball player (born 1976)

W

Wen-Feng Cong

researcher

J

Jin Ze

Chinese actor

Y

Yuan Jie

Chinese Go player

K

Kou Zhengyan

Chinese Go player

G

Guozhu Dong

Ph.D. University of Southern California 1988

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Shandong

• Wangtuan
  16.2 mi away
• Rushan
  51.9 mi away · pop. 215,000
• Haiyang
  77.2 mi away · pop. 235,100
• Laiyang
  85.8 mi away · pop. 297,900
• Zhaoyuan
  93.2 mi away · pop. 206,600
• Qishan
  97.8 mi away · pop. 48,900
• Laixi
  98.8 mi away · pop. 344,400
• Gaomi
  150.4 mi away · pop. 292,800
• Hanting
  168.6 mi away
• Yangkou
  179.6 mi away
• Gaoliu
  203.2 mi away
• Rizhao
  204.2 mi away · pop. 1,143,000

Browse all places in Shandong →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Weihai

Search results from Open Library.