Tai'erzhuang | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 台儿庄 | ||||||
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Postal | Taierhchwang | ||||||
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Wade–Giles | T'ai2-erh2-chuang1 |
Coordinates: 34°33′38.84″N 117°44′17.69″E / 34.5607889°N 117.7382472°E
Tai'erzhuang District (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is one of five districts under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zaozhuang. The district is located in the south of Shandong Province, in northeastern China. It covers an area of 538 km² 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 Japan in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The former site of the battle (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) has been listed as a national monument of the People's Republic of China since 2006 (resolution number 6-981).