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Province · East China
Shandong is a province in East China. Thirteen PreeChina city guides cover Shandong.
Five Grade I national museums stand in the province. Four UNESCO World Heritage properties have a listed component there.
Counts on this page come from PreeChina's own data as of October 2026. Tickets, opening hours and reservations are not listed, so contact each venue or check its official website for accurate information.
Map
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City Guides
Each city name opens its PreeChina guide.
Landmark Guides
In-depth guides to six landmarks in Shandong.
Top Attractions
A pick from the Top Attractions of the city guides in Shandong. Each card opens the Top Attractions of its city.
Qingdao
Badaguan, the Eight Great Passes, is a residential quarter of more than two hundred villas put up between the 1920s and the 1940s by Chinese merchants, foreign diplomats…
Jinan
Daming Lake fills the northern quarter of the old city, open water with lotus and reed beds, and it has been where Jinan goes to sit down since the Tang.
Yantai
Yantai was opened as a treaty port in 1862, and the hillside above the harbour, known as Yantai Hill, became the diplomatic and residential enclave of the foreign…
Linyi
Wang Xizhi is to Chinese calligraphy roughly what Shakespeare is to English, and the comparison holds in an awkward way: the work everyone agrees is the summit no longer…
Weihai
Huancui Tower, "Jade-Ringed Tower", stands on a hilltop at the centre of Weihai's urban landscape, its name derived from the circle of green hills that surround the city…
Weifang
In October 1996 building workers in Qingzhou opened a pit holding over 400 Buddhist stone sculptures from the Northern Wei through the Sui, the fifth and sixth centuries.
Jining
Jining was a canal city, and its place in canal history is specific.
Zibo
Boshan has been making glass for over six hundred years, and the object to look for is the inside-painted snuff bottle: a scene painted on the inner surface of the…
Dongying
The Yellow River runs its last stretch to the sea between earthen embankments, and walking or cycling the top of one is the clearest lesson in what this river is.
Zaozhuang
Baodugu, "Calf-Carrying Mesa", takes its name from a legend in which a Han Dynasty hermit carried a calf up the mountain as a calf and brought it down years later as a…
Qingdao
Laoshan is one of the principal mountains of Chinese Taoism and the granite goes straight into the Yellow Sea, with summits over 1,100 metres above cliffs the waves…
Jinan
Lingyan Temple, in the hills southwest of the city, was founded in the Eastern Jin and by the Tang and Song was counted among the four great monasteries of China.
Museums
These museums are on the China Museums Association Grade I lists and appear on the museums theme page.
five museums in Shandong
World Heritage
A property is counted when UNESCO lists at least one component point inside Shandong. Long lines such as the Great Wall and coastal sites list some of their points, so the list can be shorter than the true extent.
four properties
Routes
Three PreeChina routes include stops in Shandong.
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