Qingdao (chn)

Qingdao

Qingdao ranks 680th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mobile, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi, and Chernivtsi. Memorable people born in Qingdao include Toshiro Mifune, Wang Qishan, and Huang Xiaoming. Memorable people who died in Qingdao include Kang Youwei. Qingdao has been the birth place of many actors and soccer players and the death place of many writers. Qingdao is located in China.

Qingdao is a city in eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that connects Continental and East Asia with Europe. It has the highest GDP of any city in the province. Administered at the sub-provincial level, Qingdao has jurisdiction over seven districts and three county-level cities. As of the 2020 census, Qingdao built-up area made of the seven urban districts was home to 7,172,451 inhabitants, making it the 15th largest city in China by population. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders the prefecture-level cities of Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest. Read more on Wikipedia