Weihai
Weihai
威海市 | |
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Left to right, top to bottom: Weihai skyline with the Gate of Happiness in the foreground, city hall of Weihai, swans on Yangyuchi Bay, a beach in Rongcheng County, altar fountain to the Great Sun Goddess and Ancestral Mother at Chengshan Peak | |
Weihai City in Shandong | |
| Coordinates (Weihai municipal government): 37°30′48″N 122°07′14″E / 37.5133°N 122.1205°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Shandong |
| County-level divisions | 4 |
| Township-level divisions | 66 |
| Municipal seat | Huancui District |
| Government | |
| • CCP Secretary | Yan Jianbo (闫剑波) |
| • Mayor | Kong Fanping (孔凡萍) |
| Area | |
| 5,956 km2 (2,300 sq mi) | |
| • Water | 15.98 km2 (6.17 sq mi) 0.2756% |
| • Urban | 2,605.9 km2 (1,006.1 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 776.7 km2 (299.9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 44 m (145 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 418 m (1,371 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| 2,906,548 | |
| • Density | 490/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,728,259 |
| • Urban density | 660/km2 (1,700/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,164,730 |
| • Metro density | 1,500/km2 (3,900/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 364 billion US$ 55 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 128,774 US$ 19,460 |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
| Area code | 631 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-SD-10 |
| License Plate Prefix | 鲁K |
| Administrative division code | 371000 |
| Website | www.weihai.gov.cn |
| City Flower: Sweet Osmanthus, Osmanthus fragrans City Tree: Silk Tree, Albizia julibrissin | |
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Weihai (Chinese: 威海; pinyin: Wēihǎi), formerly Weihaiwei (Chinese: 威海卫; pinyin: Wēihǎiwèi; lit. 'Mighty Sea Fort'), 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 (specifically, Chengshan to Yeonpyeongdo).
Compared with the 2,804,771 people in the 2010 Chinese census, there has been a total increase of 101,777 people over the past decade, an increase of 3.63%, with an average annual growth rate of 0.36%. Weihai's population was 2,906,548 as of the 2020 Chinese census, of whom 1,164,730 lived in the current built-up (or metro) area of (Huancui District) even though Wendeng district to the south with 563,529 inhabitants is soon being conurbated. There are two county-level cities within Weihai; Rongcheng had a built up area with 714,211 inhabitants, while Rushan had 464,078 inhabitants in 2020.