Taizhou, referred to as "Tai" for short, was called Hailing in ancient times, also known as Fengcheng and Haiyang. It is a central city in the Yangtze River Delta and an important industrial and trade port city in the Yangtze River Delta. Located in East China and the middle of Jiangsu Province, it is an important part of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, bordering the Yangtze River in the south, Yancheng in the north, Nantong in the east and Yangzhou in the west. As of 202 1, the whole city has three districts and three county-level cities.

Taizhou city is a land and water important Tianjin connecting the north and the south, and it is the gateway to central Jiangsu. Since ancient times, it has been known as "land and water are important, and the throat is based on the county". More than 700 years ago, Kyle Poirot traveled to Taizhou and praised "this city is not very big, but it has many kinds of earthly happiness". Taizhou is a famous national historical and cultural city, which is called Haiyang in Qin, Hailing in Han, Nantang in Zhou and Wenchang in Northern Song Dynasty.

The geographical environment of Taizhou:

Taizhou city faces Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi and Suzhou across the river in the southwest and south, Nantong in the east and Yangzhou in the west, and Yancheng and Huai 'an in the northeast and north respectively. It is the intersection of five waterways from central Jiangsu to the ocean, and the junction of the coastal and Yangtze River "T" industrial belt. The total area is 5787 square kilometers.

Except Jingjiang, Taizhou has an independent hill, and the rest are alluvial plains of the two major river systems. The terrain is high in the middle and low in the north and south. The true height along the Yangtze River in the south is generally 2 to 5 meters, the true height in the high sand area in the middle is generally 5 to 7 meters, and the true height in He Lixia in the north is 1.5 to 5 meters. Taizhou has a total area of 5,787 square kilometers, of which the land area accounts for 77.85% and the water area accounts for 22. 15%. The urban area is 639.6 square kilometers.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Taizhou City