# Shandong
## English
### Alternative forms

* Shan-dong, Shan-Dong, Shan Dong (Hanyu Pinyin)
* Shantung, Shan-tung, Shan-Tung, Shan Tung (Wade–Giles)
* Xantung, Xan-tung, Xan-Tung, Xan Tung (obsolete)

### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 山東 / 山东 (Shāndōng).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃænˈdɔŋ/, /ʃɑn-/, /-ˈdɒŋ/, enPR: shänʹdo͝ongʹ

### Proper noun

Shandong
* A coastal province in eastern China. Capital: Jinan.
** 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, quoting Zhou Min-fu, “Agriculture: The Foundation”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China‎, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:We couldn’t solve this problem by the force of one co-op alone, so we united co-ops. But the people were still discussing the best form of agricultural production. “Then Chairman Mao inspected agriculture in Shandong Province and issued the call for people’s communes, summed up in his slogan, ‘People’s Communes are Fine!’
** 2008 April 28, “Scores dead and hundreds injured in China train collision”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 04 May 2010:One train was en route from Beijing to the seaside resort of Qingdao when the accident happened in Zibo, Shandong province. The second train was from the resort of Yantai, in Shandong.
** 2018 October 21, “Chinese rescuers rush to save trapped coal miners”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 2018-10-21, News‎:Rescue workers rushed to save a group of miners trapped after an accident at a coal mine in the eastern province of Shandong late on Saturday, Chinese state media reported Sunday.
** 2023 September 13, “Maduro meets Xi during official China visit”, in EFE‎, archived from the original on 04 October 2023‎:Beijing is the last stop in Maduro’s China tour, which began in the southern city of Shenzhen and included stops in Shanghai and the eastern Shandong province. […] He also visited Mt Taishan, a sacred mountain in the Shandong province, to seek “blessings for Venezuela,” according to a post on his X (formerly Twitter) account.

#### Derived terms

* Shandong Peninsula

#### Translations
### See also

Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China in English (layout · text) :
* Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
* Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
* Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
* Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau

### References

* ↑ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 483: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Shan-tung (Shandong) 山東”
* ↑ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shantung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1744, column 3

### Further reading

* “Shandong”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* Shandong, Shantung, Shan-tung, Xantung, Shan-dong, Shan-Dong, Shan Dong, Shan-Tung, Shan Tung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
* “Shandong, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “Shandong”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “Shandong”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “Shandong” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

### Anagrams

* Dongshan