Liugong Island
Liugong Island is a small island located on the northeastern edge of Shandong Peninsula, China, at the mouth of Weihai Bay. It is known as the "birthplace of China's first modern navy" and is also the site of its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War.Photo: Popolon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Leu Kung Tau”, “Liu-kung Tao”, and “Liúgōng Dǎo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weihai.
Weihai
Photo: Sunyiming steven, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weihai, also known as Weihaiwei, is a prefectural city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, a regional central city, an important marine industry base and a coastal tourism city on the Shandong Peninsula approved by The State Council.
Liugong Island
- Categories: Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction and landform
- Location: Shandong, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Liugong Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Liugong uhartea”
- Cebuano: “Liugong Dao”
- Chinese: “刘公岛”
- Chinese: “劉公島”
- Dutch: “Liugong Island”
- French: “île Liugong”
- French: “Île Liugong”
- French: “Liugong dao”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Liugong”
- Japanese: “劉公島”
- Spanish: “Isla Liugong”
- Swedish: “Liugong Dao”
- Swedish: “Liugongön”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Lưu Công”
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