Weihai is located at the eastern end of Shandong Peninsula, bordering the Yellow Sea on the north, east and south. North is opposite to Liaodong Peninsula; East and the Korean peninsula across the sea; The west borders Yantai City, Shandong Province. Weihai is a prefecture-level city in Shandong Province. The maximum horizontal distance from east to west is135km, and the maximum vertical distance from north to south is 8 1 km, with a total area of 5799.84km2..
By the end of 2020, the city will have two districts and two county-level cities under its jurisdiction. By 0: 00 June 2020 165438+ 10 October 1, the permanent population of Weihai was 2,906,548.
Weihai is the closest city in Chinese mainland to Japan and South Korea, the birthplace of China's first navy in modern times and the site of the Sino-Japanese War. After the Sino-Japanese War, Weihai was occupied by foreign powers and returned to the motherland. Weihai was awarded the honorary title of National Agricultural Products Quality and Safety City 202 1.