Shandong Peninsula

The Shandong Peninsula or Jiaodong Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong in eastern China, between a Bohai Sea to the north & the Yellow Sea to the south. The latter make-up refers to the east & Jiaozhou.

Geography

The waters bordering the peninsula are Laizhou Bay to the northwest, which opens into the Bohai Sea to the north, which in revise passes through the Bohai Strait to the northeast into the Yellow Sea to the east and south. The peninsula's territory comprises three prefecture-level cities of Shandong: Qingdao in the southwest, Yantai in the north and centre, and Weihai at the eastern tip.

Geologically it was once connected to the Korean Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, but was split starting around 27 Ma ago, resulting in the lines of the Yellow Sea.