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Jiaozhou

Syllables: Jiao·zhou

Jiaozhou proper noun: a county-level city of Qingdao, Shandong, China.

Proper noun

Jiaozhou

  1. A county-level city of Qingdao, Shandong, China.
    • A contest on the theme of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the “Tell China’s Stories” Contest 2020 was launched in Jiaozhou of Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province, on August 21, 2020.[…]Liu Jianjun, member of the Standing Committee of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the...2020 August 24, “BRI-themed contest of “Tell China’s Stories” Contest 2020 launched in Jiaozhou, Qingdao”, in PR Newswire via AP News, archived from the original on 21 May 2022
    • The county-level city of Jiaozhou in Shandong, home to the second largest provincial population in China, issued 3,238 birth certificates between January and June, down 11.6 per cent from a year ago, according to government data.2021 July 27, Orange Wang, “China population: plunging regional births drive home ‘severity’ of demographic crisis”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul...

Forms of Jiaozhou

alternative formKiaochow

Origin of Jiaozhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 膠州 /胶州 (Jiāozhōu).

Questions about Jiaozhou

What does Jiaozhou mean?
Jiaozhou means a county-level city of Qingdao, Shandong, China.
What part of speech is Jiaozhou?
Jiaozhou is a proper noun.

Words near Jiaozhou in the dictionary

  1. Jiaojiang
  2. Jiaokou
  3. jiaos
  4. Jiaosi
  5. Jiaoxi
  6. Jiaozhou
  7. jiaozi
  8. jiaozis
  9. Jiaozuo
  10. jiari
  11. Jias

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