China
North China
Shandong

Yantai

Yantai is a port city on the coast that still retains some of its colonial charm. The city is fairly small but there is a bustling development zone and large container and shipbuilding ports.
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  • Type: City with 1,870,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shandong, China
  • Also known as: “Chi-Fu”, “Chifu”, “Tchefou”, “Yantai City”, “Yen-t’ai”, “Yen-t’ai-shih”, “Yentai”, and “Zhifu”
  • Historically known as: “Chefoo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Binzhou Medical University.

University
is a medical school in Shandong Province, . It was established in 1974 with faculty from Qingdao Medical College who moved to .

Yantai

Latitude
37.4619° or 37° 27′ 43″ north
Longitude
121.4425° or 121° 26′ 33″ east
Population
1,870,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
YNT
United Nations Location Code
CN YAT
Open location code
8Q93FC6V+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082263
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1787093
Wiki­data ID
Q210493
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yantai” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yantai”
  • Arabic: “يانتاى”
  • Arabic: “يانتاي”
  • Armenian: “Յանթայ”
  • Asturian: “Yantai”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yantay”
  • Basque: “Yantai”
  • Belarusian: “Яньтай”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ানতাই”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ানথাই”
  • Bengali: “চিফু”
  • Betawi: “Yanté”
  • Breton: “Yantai”
  • Bulgarian: “Йентай”
  • Bulgarian: “Янтай”
  • Burmese: “ယန်တိုင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Chefoo”
  • Catalan: “Yantai”
  • Catalan: “Zhifu”
  • Cebuano: “Yantai”
  • Chinese: “Ian-tâi-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Yāntái Shì”
  • Chinese: “烟台”
  • Chinese: “烟台市”
  • Chinese: “煙台”
  • Chinese: “煙台市”
  • Chinese: “煙臺”
  • Chinese: “煙臺市”
  • Croatian: “Yantai”
  • Czech: “Jen-tchaj”
  • Danish: “Chefoo”
  • Danish: “Tschifu”
  • Danish: “Yantai”
  • Dutch: “Yantai”
  • Esperanto: “Jantaj”
  • Finnish: “Yantai”
  • French: “Chi-Fou”
  • French: “Tche-fou”
  • French: “Tchefou”
  • French: “Yantai”
  • Gan Chinese: “烟台市”
  • Georgian: “იენთაი”
  • German: “Cheefoo”
  • German: “Chefoo”
  • German: “Tschifu”
  • German: “Yantai”
  • Greek: “Γιαντάι”
  • Gujarati: “યાંતાઈ”
  • Hausa: “Yantai”
  • Hebrew: “ינטאי”
  • Hindi: “यंताई”
  • Hungarian: “Jentaj”
  • Hungarian: “Zhifu”
  • Indonesian: “Yantai”
  • Irish: “Yantai”
  • Italian: “Chihfu”
  • Italian: “Yantai”
  • Japanese: “チーフー”
  • Japanese: “烟台”
  • Japanese: “煙台”
  • Japanese: “煙台市”
  • Japanese: “煙臺”
  • Japanese: “芝罘”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾಂಟೈ”
  • Kikuyu: “Yantai”
  • Korean: “연대”
  • Korean: “연태 시”
  • Korean: “연태”
  • Korean: “연태시”
  • Korean: “옌타이 시”
  • Korean: “옌타이”
  • Korean: “옌타이시”
  • Latvian: “Jantai”
  • Latvian: “Jaņtai”
  • Literary Chinese: “煙台市”
  • Lithuanian: “Jantai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yantai”
  • Malagasy: “Yantai”
  • Malay: “Yantai”
  • Marathi: “यंताई”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Iĕng-dài”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ian-tâi-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yantai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yentai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yantai”
  • Norwegian: “Yantai”
  • Ossetian: “Яньтай”
  • Persian: “یانتای”
  • Polish: “Chefoo”
  • Polish: “Czyfu”
  • Polish: “Jentaj”
  • Polish: “Yantai”
  • Portuguese: “Chefoo”
  • Portuguese: “Yantai”
  • Russian: “Чифу”
  • Russian: “Яньтай”
  • Scots: “Yantai”
  • Serbian: “Јантај”
  • Serbian: “Јентај”
  • Silesian: “Yantai”
  • Sinhala: “යැන්ටයි”
  • Slovenian: “Čefu”
  • Slovenian: “Jantaj”
  • Slovenian: “Yantai”
  • Spanish: “Chefoo”
  • Spanish: “Yantai”
  • Spanish: “Yantái”
  • Spanish: “Zhifu”
  • Swedish: “Chefoo”
  • Swedish: “Yan tai”
  • Swedish: “Yantai”
  • Tagalog: “Yantai”
  • Tamil: “யான்டாய்”
  • Telugu: “యంతై”
  • Thai: “จือฝู”
  • Thai: “ยานไถ”
  • Thai: “เยียนไถ”
  • Turkish: “Yantai”
  • Uighur: “Yentey shehiri”
  • Uighur: “يەنتەي شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Чіфу, Єнтай”
  • Ukrainian: “Яньтай”
  • Urdu: “یانتائی”
  • Venetian: “Yantai”
  • Veps: “Jan’tai”
  • Veps: “Jantai”
  • Vietnamese: “Yên Đài”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yantai”
  • Welsh: “Yantai”
  • Wu Chinese: “烟台市”
  • Yue Chinese: “煙臺”

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