Shandong

"Shandong (chino simplificado: 'Montes Orientales', chino tradicional: , pinyin: Shndng, transcripción antigua: Shantung) es una provincia costera de la República Popular China. Su abreviatura es L (), por el Estado de Lu que existió en la zona durante el periodo de las Primaveras y los Otoños. Otro nombre popular que se le suele dar es Qilu (, , Qíl ), ya que el Estado de Qi también estuvo aquí en esa misma época. Shandong significa literalmente este de las montañas en referencia a la localización de la provincia al este de las montañas Taihang. La provincia está situada en el bajo río Amarillo y se extiende hacia el mar en la península de Shandong. Limita con el mar de Bohai al norte, con Hebei al noroeste, con Henan al oeste, con Jiangsu al sur y con el mar Amarillo al suroeste. También comparte un pequeño tramo de frontera con Anhui, entre Henan y Jiangsu."

"Shandong (Chinese: ; formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism, and Confucianism. Shandong's Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and one of the world's sites with the longest history of continuous religious worship. The Buddhist temples in the mountains to the south of the provincial capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius, and was later established as the center of Confucianism. Shandong's location at the intersection of ancient as well as modern northsouth and eastwest trading routes have helped to establish it as an economic center. After a period of political instability and economic hardship that began in the late 19th century, Shandong has emerged as one of the most populous (95,793,065 inhabitants at the 2010 Census) and most affluent provinces in the People's Republic of China with a GDP of CNY¥5.942 trillion in 2014, or USD