Yantai

Appellation

Yantai is a Geographical indication in China.

Coastal area of Shandong where Changyu founded China's first modern winery in 1892.

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Key facts

Type: Geographical indication
Area: 1,375,366 ha registered outline
Centre: 37.2019° N, 120.7712° E
Legal basis: Wine GIs protected in China and listed in the EU-China agreement (2021). Counties as in the 2017 boundaries.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town: 13 km south-west of Zhuangyuan
Nearest city: 26 km north-east of Laiyang 169,594 people
To the sea: 55 km
Same latitude: Cerasuolo di Vittoria (Italy), Montilla-Moriles (Spain), Lagoa (Portugal), Santa Cruz Mountains (United States), Malvasia Πάρος (Greece)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: -56–768 m
Mean elevation: 107 m

Measured over the whole outline on 58,665 elevation cells of about 487 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries CHN ADM2 (2017) (Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) v1.0)

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