The People's Republic of China (中华, Zhōnghuá in Chinese) has a lengthy coastline, many large harbors, and a large number of lighthouses. During the colonial period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Western powers occupied a number of locations in China and built lighthouses, many of which survive. In more recent years the People's Republic has developed modern ports throughout the country and built many lighthouses to serve them. The country is divided into 23 provinces and 11 other province-level regions of various special types. Héběi (formerly spelled Hopei or Hopeh) is the province of northern China surrounding the provincial-level metropolitan districts of Běijīng and Tiānjīn. Its coast faces eastward on the Bohai Sea, a northwestward extension of the Yellow Sea lying west of the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas. Héběi is divided into eleven prefectural-level cities. This page describes the lighthouses of the prefectural-level city of Qínhuángdǎo, China's second busiest port after Shànghǎi, located in the northeastern corner of Héběi. Qínhuángdǎo is divided into four districts and three counties. There are many languages and dialects spoken in China, but Standard Chinese, often called Mandarin, is official. The pīnyīn system for transliterating Chinese into Latin characters is now the international standard but some locations continue to be known also under the spellings of older transliteration systems. The Chinese word for a lighthouse is dēngtǎ (灯塔). In Standard Chinese jiāo (formerly chiao) is a reef or rock, jiǎo is a cape or headland, dǎo (tao) is an island; yǔ (tsu) or tuózi ("lump") is a small island, hǎi is a sea, wān is a bay, hǎixiá is a strait, hé or jiāng is a river, hékǒu ("river mouth") is an estuary, and gǎng (kang) is a harbor. Lighthouses in China are maintained by the PRC Maritime Safety Administration. The administration is organized in regional administrations; Qínhuángdǎo lighthouses fall under Tianjin MSA. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. CN numbers are Chinese light list numbers. Admiralty numbers are from volume P of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 112.
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Shānhǎiguān District (Qínhuángdǎo North Harbor) Lighthouses
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![]() Shānhǎiguān Sightseeing Pier, Shānhǎiguān Google Maps satellite view |
Hǎigǎng District (Qínhuángdǎo Main Harbor) Lighthouses
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![]() Méisānqī Inner Pier Light (left) and New Pier Light (right), Qínhuángdǎo Port of Qínhuángdǎo photo |
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![]() Qínhuángdǎo East Channel Range Rear Light PRC Maritime Safety Administration photo |
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![]() Main Channel Range Front Lights, Qínhuángdǎo, December 2012 Google Maps photo by King Yin Chan |
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![]() Qínhuángdǎo West Channel Range Rear Light, Qínhuángdǎo Google Maps satellite view |
South Coast Lighthouses
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Notable faux lighthouses:
Adjoining pages: North: Western Liaoning | South: Tianjin Area
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Posted March 5, 2008. Checked and revised July 26, 2023. Lighthouses: 50. Site copyright 2023 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.