Tai'erzhuang District () is the southernmost of five

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under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zaozhuang. The district is located in the south of

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, China, bordering

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province to the south. It covers an area of and has a population of 290,000. The district was the site of the

Battle of Taierzhuang The Battle of Taierzhuang () was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, which was fought between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The battle was that war's first major Chinese victory. It humiliated the Jap ...

fought between the armies of the

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and Imperial Japan in 1938 during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

. The site of the battle () has been listed as a national monument of the People's Republic of China since 2006 (resolution number 6-981).

Administrative divisions

As 2012, this district is divided to 1 subdistrict and 5 towns. ;Subdistricts *Yunhe Subdistrict () ;Towns

Climate

References

External links

official website
County-level divisions of Shandong {{Shandong-geo-stub

Administrative divisions

Climate

See also

References

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