Tai'erzhuang District

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Tai'erzhuang
Simplified Chinese 台儿庄
Postal Taierhchwang

Tai'erzhuang District (Chinese: ; pinyin: Tái'érzhuāng ) 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: Tái'érzhuāng zhàn jiùzhǐ) has been listed as a national monument of the People's Republic of China since 2006 (resolution number 6-981).

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