Penglai City

Penglai 蓬莱市
County-level city
Penglai City viewed from the Penglai Pavilion
Penglai Location in Shandong
Coordinates: 37°49′N 120°44′E / 37.817°N 120.733°E / 37.817; 120.733Coordinates: 37°49′N 120°44′E / 37.817°N 120.733°E / 37.817; 120.733
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Shandong
Prefecture-level city	Yantai
Area
• Total	1,128.5 km2 (435.7 sq mi)
Population (2003)	447,000
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	265600
Area code(s)	0535
Website	penglai.gov.cn

Penglai, formerly known as Dengzhou or Tengchow, is a county-level city belonging to the prefecture-level city of Yantai, Shandong Province, in the People's Republic of China. It lies on the northwest corner of the Shandong Peninsula on the southern coast of the Gulf of Bohai. The city is famous for its mirages out at sea, which are frequent during May and June.

Penglai is entirely surrounded by other divisions of Yantai: Fushan District is to the east, Longkou City to the west, and Qixia City to the south. Its limits in geographic coordinates are 37° 25'–37° 50' N, 120° 35'–121° 09' E.

The Red Cliffs () of the area are reputed to have been the site where the Eight Immortals set out for the land of the immortals and where the First Emperor (Shi Huangdi) later sent off five hundred boys and five hundred girls on ships to search for them. Chinese legends held that a mystic dolphin was seen from the cliffs above and, missing it with his spear, the emperor knew that his days were numbered. The Martial Emperor of Han (Han Wudi) later also visited the area while searching for the elixir of immortality.