Jiaonan Explained

Conventional Long Name:Jiaonan
Common Name:Jiaonan
Subdivision:County-level city
Nation:China
S1:Huangdao District
Year Start:1946
Date End:1 December
Year End:2012
Today:Part of Huangdao District, Qingdao

Jiaonan was a former county and county-level city under the administration of Qingdao, Shandong province, China, located in the southwestern portion of Qingdao along the Yellow Sea coast. In 1945, as Zhushan County it was carved from Jiao County and Qingdao City, and in 1946, renamed as Jiaonan County, deriving its name from its southern location relative to Jiaozhou Bay. In 1990, it was upgraded to a county-level city. Jiaonan has 7 subdistricts and 11 towns. In December 2012, it was merged into Huangdao District.[1]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in China.

Twin towns — sister cities

Jiaonan is twinned with:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/20121201/220413865871.shtml . zh:青岛调整部分行政区划 撤销黄岛区、胶南市等 . Sina Finance . zh-hans . 1 December 2012 . 2013-01-06.
  2. Web site: Miasta partnerskie i zaprzyjaźnione Nowego Sącza. 2013-08-01. Urząd Miasta Nowego Sącza. Polish. https://web.archive.org/web/20130523172036/http://www.nowysacz.pl/miasta_partnerskie. 2013-05-23.