Shandong is a coastal province in what has traditionally been considered northern China. Shandong Province is located northwest of Shanghai, and east of the Taihang Mountain Range that stretches across parts of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei Provinces, all of which lie west of Shandong Province (the name shandong means "east of the mountain", while the name shanxi means "west of the mountain"). China's "Mother of All Rivers", the Yellow River, empties into the Gulf of Zhili north of Shandong Province's Dongying City near the mouth of Laizhou Bay, both of which bodies of water form parts of the Sea of Bohai, whose southern border is contiguous with Shandong Province.

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