Jiaozhou Bay

A bay in the southern part of the Shandong Peninsula, in eastern Shandong Province, China. The mouth of the bay opens into the Yellow Sea in the southeast, and is narrow with Laoshan Cape jutting out from the northeast and Xijia Island jutting out from the southwest. The Nanjiao River flows into it in the northwest. The bay is ice-free, and Jiaozhou, at the inner part of the bay, was considered an excellent port, but after it was leased to Germany in 1898, the fishing village at the head of the bay, Qingdao, developed rapidly and took over its position. It was occupied by Japan in 1914, and returned to China in 1922. The coast of the bay is one of China's leading producers of sea salt.

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中国、山東(さんとう／シャントン)省東部、山東（膠東）半島南部の湾。湾口は南東で黄海(こうかい／ホワンハイ)に開き、北東から嶗山(ろうざん)岬、南西から薜家(せっか)島が突き出すため狭い。北西では南膠河が流入する。湾内は不凍で、湾奥の膠県（膠州）は良港とされたが、1898年ドイツに租借後、湾頭の漁村青島(チンタオ)が急速に発展し、その地位を譲った。1914年日本に占領され、22年に返還された。湾岸は中国有数の海塩生産地である。

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