Yingkou
Yingkou is a coastal prefecture-level city of central southern Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, on the northeastern shore of Liaodong Bay.
It is the third-smallest prefecture level city in Liaoning with a total area of 5,502 square kilometres (2,124 sq mi), and the ninth most populous with a population of 2,328,582 as of the 2020 census, of whom 1,228,198 lived in the built-up area made of three urban districts and one county-level city (Dashiqiao). It borders the sub-provincial city of Dalian to the south, the prefectural cities of Anshan to the north and east and Panjin to the northwest, and also shares maritime boundaries with Jinzhou and Huludao across the Liaodong Bay to its west.
Getting to Yingkou
- 01Yingkou Lanqi Airport
Yingkou's airport (opened in 2016) has flights from Shenzhen, Shanghai, Harbin, Yantai, Jinan, and Jining.
Worth seeing
Yueya Bay. Basha Bay. Fairy Island. Xiongyue Hot Spring. Qinglong Mountain. Buyun Mountain. Wang'ershan Hill. Lengyan Temple. One of the largest Buddhist temples in the northeast of China. The site contains Lengyan Pagoda which was opened in 1997.
Things to do
There is a Wanda Plaza Mall in town with a movie theater.
Where to eat
This city has great self-barbecue restaurants.
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