Taitou, Shandong Explained

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).

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www.xzqh.org/html/2010/0510/11904.html . zh:台头镇 . XZQH.org . Chinese . 2011-06-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110830114657/http://www.xzqh.org/html/2010/0510/11904.html . 2011-08-30.