Laiyang city () is a county-level city within

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the ...

bordering Qingdao, located in the middle of the

Shandong Peninsula The Shandong (Shantung) Peninsula or Jiaodong (Chiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong Province in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south. The latter name refers to the east and Jiaozhou. Geo ...

, in Shandong province, China. The majority (70%) of its population are farmers and it is famous for producing the Laiyang pear. As of 2010, it had a population of 923,000.

Administrative divisions

As 2012, this city is divided to 4 subdistricts and 14 towns. ;Subdistricts ;Towns

Climate

Transport

China National Highway 309 China National Highway 309 (G309) runs west from Rongcheng, Shandong towards Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Ningxia Autonomous Region, and ends in Lanzhou, Gansu. It is 2208 kilometres in length. Route and distance See als ...

* Shandong Provincial Highway 209 * Shandong Provincial Highway 212 * Shandong Provincial Highway 804 * Lanyan Railway

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External links

* * * Cities in Shandong Yantai {{Shandong-geo-stub