Taitou | |
Native Name: | 台头镇 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | China Shandong |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Shandong |
Coordinates: | 37.03°N 118.6361°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Shandong |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Weifang |
Subdivision Type3: | County-level city |
Subdivision Name3: | Shouguang |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 142 |
Elevation M: | 4.3 |
Elevation Ft: | 14 |
Population Total: | 58000 |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | China Standard |
Utc Offset1: | +8 |
Taitou is a town of around 58,000 people in the north of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located in the northwest of Weifang city, it is under the administration of the county-level city of Shouguang city, to the southeast, and has an area of . Within the town are 42 administrative villages.
In 1958, Taitou was created as a people's commune, then changed to a town in 1984. In 2000 it absorbed the town of Niutou (Chinese: 牛头镇).
Taitou was the site of Martin C. Yang's ethnography A Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province (1945).