The Shāndōng Peninsula (simplified Chinese: 山东半岛; traditional Chinese: 山東半島; pinyin: Shāndōng Bàndǎo) also known as the Jiāodōng Peninsula (胶东半岛; 膠東半島) is a peninsula in the Shāndōng province of northeastern China. It marks the southern limit of the Bóhăi Sea.
Cities on the peninsula include Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai.
The local dialect of Mandarin, Jiao-Liao, is also spoken on the Liáodōng peninsula to the north across the Bóhăi Sea.
The Shandong peninsula formed part of the German concessions in China from 1898 to 1914. During World War I, Japan captured the city of Qingdao (previously held by Germany) on the peninsula in November 1914; Japan had declared war on Germany (August 1914) in terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902.
After World War I, it was expected that Shandong would revert to China, but instead was signed over to Japan on 30th April, 1919 after it emerged that the Chinese Premier Duan Qirui had signed away Shandong to Japan in return for a loan.
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