Is there a difference between Shandong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula?

First of all, it is certain that there is a difference between the Shandong Peninsula and the Jiaodong Peninsula. The two seem to be the same, but the areas they contain are different. The Shandong Peninsula is based on the estuary of the Xiaoqing River and the Xiuzhen River in Rizhao. According to the plan, the Jiaodong Peninsula is divided based on the Jiao Lai River. The northern part of the Jiao Lai River is in Laizhou Bay, and the southern part is in Jiaozhou Bay in Qingdao. We can also simply understand that the Shandong Peninsula includes the Jiaodong Peninsula, and the Jiaodong Peninsula cannot represent the entire Shandong Peninsula. At present, in terms of geographical area classification such as weather forecasting, it is still traditionally called the Shandong Peninsula. However, in some cases of economic development, it is generally called the Jiaodong Peninsula, because the cities included in the Jiaodong Peninsula generally refer to Weihai, Yantai, and Qingdao. The development speed of these three cities is basically among the best in Shandong Province, especially Qingdao and Yantai, which are developing very rapidly. And in terms of language and customs, the Jiaodong Peninsula is also somewhat different from the larger Shandong Peninsula. However, at present, as long as there is a line between the north and south coasts in eastern Shandong, it can be regarded as a peninsula. However, only the three cities of Yan, Wei, and Qing can be called the Jiaodong Peninsula, and even the Jiaodong Peninsula in a narrow sense only includes the northern part of Qingdao. Dongying and Binzhou can even be regarded as cities in the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula, but linguistically they belong to Hebei-Shandong Mandarin, while cities in the south of the Shandong Peninsula, such as Rizhao, speak the dialect of Central Plains Mandarin. The Yanweiqing area of ??the Jiaodong Peninsula speaks Jiao-Liao Mandarin. Basically, Weifang is the transition zone between the two regions. Shandong is currently implementing vigorous reforms. In the future, Shandong's economic development in the north will get better and better. The economic circle it creates will definitely be a peninsula economic circle. In addition to Jiaodong cities, Weifang, Zibo, and Jinan will definitely be included in the peninsula, and will be included in the peninsula in the future. With the construction of the Bohai Rim High-speed Railway and the Bohai Sea Corridor, the Bohai Rim Economic Circle created by the North will definitely be peninsula-wide. Regardless of whether the Jiaodong Peninsula or the Shandong Peninsula is just a region, there is no big difference. Welcome to follow "Interesting Geography" and leave a message to discuss together.

I took the liberal arts college entrance examination and studied Chinese geography and world geography. China has three major peninsulas! Shandong Half Bird, Liaodong Peninsula, Leizhou Peninsula. The largest of them is the Shandong Peninsula. Now I ask, is there any difference between Shandong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula? There must be a difference. The first is the difference in size. The Shandong Peninsula is larger than the Jiaodong Peninsula. This is the relationship between the big circle and the small circle. The Shandong Peninsula is a big circle and the Jiaodong Peninsula is a small circle. The Shandong Peninsula includes the Jiaodong Peninsula, and the Jiaodong Peninsula is only a part of the Shandong Peninsula.

Looking at it now, the Jiaodong Peninsula mainly includes the three cities of Yantai, Weihai and Qingdao, while the Shandong Peninsula not only includes Yantai, Weihai and Qingdao, but also Zibo, Weifang, Rizhao and other places. The Shandong Peninsula can fully represent the Jiaodong Peninsula, but the Jiaodong Peninsula cannot fully represent the Shandong Peninsula. These are very different in size and cannot be confused.

I once had the opportunity to set foot in Shandong, the land of Qilu, which is full of outstanding people and talented people. However, due to lack of money, I did not go to Mount Tai to watch the sunrise, to Yantai and Weihai to see the sea, and to Qingdao to see the German architecture. , I really want to go to the sorghum fields described by Mo Yan to see if there are any red sorghums, and fly kites in Weifang. Last summer, my son went to Jiaodong Peninsula, Yantai, Weihai, Qingdao for a free trip, and sold me Laoshan black tea. I really want to visit Shandong again and travel around Shandong. Of course, I want to go to Jiaodong Peninsula first. When I was young, I read a lot of novels, many of which were related to the Jiaodong Peninsula, Shandong, Laiwu, Linyi, Zaozhuang, Tai'an, Qufu, Jining, and Jinan. I really want to savor Qingdao, Weihai, and Yantai when I have the opportunity.

Is there a difference between Shandong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula?

Of course there is a difference between Shandong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula!

Shandong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula are two different geographical concepts.

The Shandong Peninsula is one of the three largest peninsulas in China along with the Liaodong Peninsula and Leizhou Peninsula. The Shandong Peninsula is the largest peninsula in China.

From a geographical point of view, the Shandong Peninsula is larger than the Jiaodong Peninsula, and the Jiaodong Peninsula is part of the Shandong Peninsula.

Map of Shandong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula

In other words, Shandong Peninsula is a large peninsula containing a small peninsula - Jiaodong Peninsula.

Map of Shandong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula

It can be clearly seen from the map.

For reference only.

I am from Weihai, let me tell you what the traditional Jiaodong Peninsula is. The old man told us since we were young that if we take out all the current Weihai and Yantai, Laizhou, and add Laixi in Qingdao, this is the Jiaodong Peninsula in the traditional sense, which contains great emotional factors, dialect factors, and folk customs factors. In addition, we all call people in the west area "Lao Xizi"! People from Jiaodong Peninsula are more responsible! Later, some people used the Jiao Lai River as the boundary to divide the Jiaodong Peninsula. It is estimated that it was just to gain popularity from some aspects, and geographical factors cannot be ruled out. Even dividing it by the east of Jiaozhou is a lack of understanding of history and takes it for granted. The meaning of "Jiaodong" in this Jiaodong Peninsula is not the east side of Jiaozhou, nor is it Jiaodong Town. Some people even want to include Jinan, considering it from the perspective of economic development, which is even more nonsense.

The Jiaodong Peninsula is the Shandong Peninsula, both large and small.

The Little Jiaodong Peninsula is also the Little Shandong Peninsula. It is east of the line connecting the bottom of Jiaozhou Bay and the bottom of Laizhou Bay. It should not be east of the Jiao Lai River, but roughly between the mouth of the Dagu River and the North Jiao Lai River (originally the middle and lower reaches of the Jiao River river channel) east of the mouth of the sea. Dajiaodong Peninsula, also known as DaShandong Peninsula, is east of the connection between the estuary of Xiaoqing River and the estuary of Xiuzhen River. I have always been curious about this, why the coordinate is the estuary of Xiuzhen River in Rizhao, not south of Xiuzhen River. At the bottom of Haizhou Bay, it is the mouth of Qingkou River in Ganyu.

There is a big difference. The Shandong Peninsula is more like a peninsula in the geographical sense, while the Jiaodong Peninsula is more like a peninsula in the administrative division sense.

Let’s first look at the definition of a peninsula:

If we look at the map, we will find that the portion east of the line connecting the seaside junction of Shandong and Hebei Province to the seaside junction of Jiangsu Province has three sides. Surrounded by water, it meets the definition of a peninsula.

However, the official definition of the Shandong Peninsula is as follows:

The southern end remains unchanged, and the endpoint is the Xiuzhen River mouth at the junction of Rizhao Lanshan Pass and Lanshantou Sulu.

The northern end is the junction point between Xinhu Town, Hekou District, Dongying City and the seaside of Zhanhua District, Binzhou City. The line connecting the two endpoints is the boundary, and the eastern part is divided into the Shandong Peninsula.

Officially defined boundaries of the Shandong Peninsula

The Shandong Peninsula includes the mouth of the Yellow River, so the area of ??the Shandong Peninsula is also expanding year by year.

The Shandong Peninsula is the largest peninsula in China, with a total area of ??approximately 73,000 square kilometers. The Shandong Peninsula includes all three cities of Qingdao, Yantai, and Weihai (excluding islands), as well as parts of Rizhao, Weifang, and Dongying.

Jiaodong Peninsula refers to the peninsula east of the Jiao Lai River.

The Jiaodong Peninsula is not a peninsula in the true sense, because the geographical boundaries of peninsulas are straight lines, but the Jiaodong Peninsula is bounded by rivers. This concept was proposed mainly because the three cities of Jiaodong have relatively independent culture and folk customs in Shandong Province, and their economies are more developed.

The Jiaolai River is an artificial canal that connects Jiaozhou Bay and Laizhou Bay. In ancient times, it was a shortcut from the Yellow Sea to the Bohai Sea. If completely divided according to the Jiao Lai River, the Jiaodong Peninsula includes all of Weihai, most of Yantai, and parts of Qingdao (excluding islands).

However, it is currently generally known as the "Jiaodong Peninsula", which includes all the areas on the mainland of Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai. At the same time, Weifang has always wanted to squeeze into the Jiaodong area. Therefore, the Jiaodong Peninsula is more inclined to be a peninsula in the sense of administrative division.

The boundaries of the Shandong Peninsula and the Jiaodong Peninsula are different. The Shandong Peninsula is much larger than the Jiaodong Peninsula, and the Shandong Peninsula is still expanding year by year. At the same time, the Shandong Peninsula is a peninsula in a purely geographical sense, but the Jiaodong Peninsula is not.

There is a big difference in terms of geography, but not much in terms of zoning.

Jiaodong was originally the abbreviation for the east of Jiaolai River. In the old days, it only included the entire territory of Yantai and Weihai, half of Qingdao (excluding Jiaozhou, Huangdao, and Jiaonan), and some areas in the northeast of Weifang. However, when talking about Jiaodong now, we usually refer to the five cities of Jiaodong, including Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai, Weifang, and Rizhao, because this area includes the Jiao Lai Plain and the Jiaodong hilly belt, which are classified together according to the watershed and landform characteristics. It’s almost like calling the cities near the Yangtze River but not along the Yangtze River the Yangtze River Basin. So Jiaodong also changed from the old Qingyanwei to Qingyanwei Weiri. However, in terms of dialect, diet, habits, etc., there are obvious differences between Qingyanwei, Weifang and Rizhao.

The new version of Jiaodong Peninsula is actually the prototype of the modern version of Shandong Peninsula, except that Dongying and Zibo are added to it, so the geographical difference between Jiaodong Peninsula and Shandong Peninsula is only two cities.

But why is there Jinan on the map below? Because Shandong established the Shandong Peninsula Economic Circle a few years ago, Jinan, as the provincial capital, of course wants to be connected to the most economically developed economic belt in Shandong, rather than playing with its poor neighbors in western Shandong. Therefore, it was included in the early planning of the Shandong Peninsula Economic Circle and became a member of the "Shandong Peninsula". Otherwise, Binzhou, a coastal city, is not considered a member of the Shandong Peninsula. How can Jinan, an inland city, become a member of the peninsula?

Therefore, although the geographical differences are large, transportation is now convenient, and zoning and planning are more decisive factors than geographical factors. Therefore, the Jiaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula currently only add or subtract one or two cities. That's all, there's really not much difference.

The Shandong Peninsula includes: Zibo, Weifang, Rizhao, Qingdao, Yantai, and Weihai.

Jiaodong Peninsula refers to: Qinggao, Yantai and Weihai.

Of course, Shandong Peninsula refers to Shandong, and Jiaodong Peninsula refers to Yantai, Weihai and Qingdao! Shandong Peninsula

Shandong Peninsula is the largest peninsula in China. It is located in the east of Shandong Province, east of the Jiao Lai Valley, and extends into the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. It is 290 kilometers long from east to west, 190 kilometers wide from north to south, and 190 kilometers wide at the narrowest. 50 kilometers, with a total area of ??26,600 square kilometers, bounded by the junction of Xinhu Town in Hekou District and Zhanhua District (Dongying) and the Xiuzhen River Mouth (Rizhao) at the junction of Lanshan Pass and Lanshan Touxulu in Rizhao. part.

The peninsula faces the sea on three sides, facing the Liaodong Peninsula across the Bohai Bay to the north, and facing South Korea across the sea to the east.

Simply put, the Shandong Peninsula connects the Hebei coastline and the Jiangsu coastline. The part of Shandong east of the connection line is called the Shandong Peninsula. Jiaodong Peninsula

Jiaodong Peninsula refers to the Shandong Peninsula area east of the Jiaolai Valley or Jiaowei Plain. It refers to the area east of the Jiao Lai River, and its administrative division includes parts of Yantai, Weihai and Qingdao.

To simply understand, the Shandong Peninsula is the part of Shandong that extends to the ocean. The Jiaodong Peninsula is the part of the Shandong Peninsula that extends into the ocean

Shandong weather forecasts often use the term "peninsula area", and this peninsula area refers to the Jiaodong Peninsula. The Jiaodong Peninsula has a maritime temperate monsoon climate, and the Shandong Peninsula excluding the Jiaodong Peninsula has a continental temperate monsoon climate. Generally speaking, the Shandong Peninsula in everyone's mind refers to the Jiaodong Peninsula, because the Jiaodong Peninsula is an area of ??economic development and a developed marine economy.