yantai weather Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/yantai-weather Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Yantai Map http://toursmaps.com/yantai-map.html http://toursmaps.com/yantai-map.html#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=231232 Province: Shandong Area: 222sq.km/86sq. miles Population: 370,000 (conurbation 8,000,000) Yantai lies in the north-east of Shandong province, at 121°23’Eand37032’N. It is linked by ship with Shanghai, Qinhuangdao and Dalian, and by rail with Beijing, the provincial capital Jinan, Nanjing and Qingdao. Situation and Communications The town owes its name of Yantai (Terrace of Smoke) to a watch-tower built in the second half of the 14th c, from where smoke signals once gave warning of approaching enemy ships. History Sights On the top ofthe mountain in the town centre stands a temple, built in the Yuan period (1271-1368) and dedicated to

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