Taizhou, Zhejiang

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台州市
Tāizhōu Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
Area (Land)	9,411 km²
Area (Sea)	80,000 km²
Coastline	745 km
Population	5,466,200
GDP	Unknown
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	9
Township-level divisions	Unknown
Mayor	Zhang Hongming (张鸿铭)
Area code	576
License Plate Prefix	浙J

For the prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, see Taizhou, Jiangsu.

Taizhou (Simplified Chinese: 台州; pinyin: Tāizhōu, not Táizhōu) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningbo to the north, Shaoxing to the northeast, Jinhua to the west, Lishui to the southwest, Wenzhou to the south, and looks out to the East China Sea to the east.

[edit] Administration

The prefecture-level city of Taizhou currently administers 3 district, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties.

• Jiaojiang District (椒江区)
• Huangyan District (黄岩区)
• Linhai City (临海市)
• Luqiao District (路桥区)
• Sanmen County (三门县)
• Tiantai County (天台县)
• Wenling City (温岭市)
• Xianju County (仙居县)
• Yuhuan County (玉环县)

[edit] External links

• Government website of Taizhou (in Simplified Chinese)
• China Yuhuan has sponken the valve capital city of China
• China Yuhuan valves
• Taizhou Trade Network

Prefecture-level divisions of Zhejiang Sub-provincial cities: Hangzhou | Ningbo Prefecture-level cities: Huzhou | Jiaxing | Jinhua | Lishui Quzhou | Shaoxing | Taizhou | Wenzhou | Zhoushan

List of Zhejiang County-level divisions

Coordinates: 28°40′N 121°21′E