Tai'erzhuang, Zaozhuang

Tai'erzhuang District 台儿庄区 Taierhchwang, T’ai-erh-chuang
District
Location in Zaozhuang
Tai'erzhuang Location in Shandong
Coordinates: 34°33′47″N 117°44′03″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Shandong
Prefecture-level city	Zaozhuang
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.tez.gov.cn

House to house fighting during the Battle of Taierzhuang

Tai'erzhuang
Simplified Chinese	台儿庄
Traditional Chinese	臺兒莊
Postal	Taierhchwang
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tái'érzhuāng Wade–Giles T'ai2-erh2-chuang1 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping toi4ji4zong1

Tai'erzhuang District (Chinese: 台儿庄区; pinyin: Tái'érzhuāng Qū also 臺兒莊) is the southernmost of five districts under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zaozhuang. The district is located in the south of Shandong Province, China, bordering Jiangsu province to the south. It covers an area of 538 km² (208 sq mi) and has a population of 290,000.

The district was the site of the Battle of Taierzhuang fought between the armies of the Chinese Kuomintang and Imperial Japan in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The former site of the battle (台儿庄大战旧址; Tái'érzhuāng dàzhàn jiùzhǐ) has been listed as a national monument of the People's Republic of China since 2006 (resolution number 6-981).

See also

• Battle of Taierzhuang

External links

• official website