Mount Taishan
Also known as Mont Tai, Mont Taishan, Mount Tai, Parc national de Taishan, Tai Mountain, Tai Shan, Taishan, 泰山
Category
Mixed
Inscribed under criteria (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii).
Region
Asia and the Pacific
China
Inscribed
1987
Area
25,000 ha
In preparation
A full profile of Mount Taishan is being written.
We're still writing the full guide to this site. The essential facts are below, and you can help by suggesting corrections or additions.
Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Mount Taishan is about 8 km north of Taian. The nearest other World Heritage site is Confucius Temple, Qufu, about 75 km away.
Nearest towns and cities
- Taian · about 1,629,000 peopleabout 8 km south
- Jinan · about 2,798,000 peopleabout 45 km north
- Laiwu · about 124,000 peopleabout 50 km east
- Pingyi · about 78,000 peopleabout 95 km south-east
- Liaocheng · about 227,000 peopleabout 100 km west
- Zibo · about 3,061,000 peopleabout 100 km north-east
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
ChinaCultural75 km away
ChinaCultural250 km away
ChinaCultural394 km away
ChinaCultural407 km away
ChinaCultural409 km away
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
Trip reports
No one has written up a visit to Mount Taishan yet. If you have been, we would like to hear how it went.
Been here? Share a trip reportGuest reports are credited and edited with you before they appear.
Suggest a correction or additionEvery message is read by an editor.
Facts from open data: Wikidata (CC0)