台州 (Tāizhōu)
台州1 (Tāizhōu) is a city centered at the mouth of the Yong'an River in 浙江2 (Zhèjiāng) Province, in 中华3 (Zhōnghuá) People's Republic. Only in the 20th century did it have such a large population (2010 metropolitan population of 4.298 million).4
| Year | Population | Political entity |
| 2000 CE | 3,604,0005| 中华 (Zhōnghuá or Chinese) People's Republic) | |
Historical Map
External references
Skylines of Tāzhōu, Zhèjiāng Province, Zhōnghuá People's Republic
Footnotes
1. Tāizhōu or T'ai-chou or Taijou are transliterations from Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. It is also called Taichow (former postal designation based on the Nanjing dialect). The first character, when pronounced this way, refers to a mountain in the province; the second character refers to an administrative division, usually translated as either province, prefecture or county. In the Tāizhōu dialect of the Wu dialect group, it transliterates as T'e-tsiu.
2. Zhèjiāng or Che-Chiang or Jejyang in transliterated Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. It is also called Chekiang (former postal designation based on the Nanjing dialect). The first character is a phonetic marker coupled with the water radical. In reconstructed Old Chinese it was pronounced like tet, and was a proto-Wu term for the Yue people according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang, accessed August 10, 2016. The second character means river.
3. Zhōnghuá or Chung-hua or Junghwa in transliterated Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. The first character means central and the second means Chinese/ illustrious/ flowery. China is its English name. In the Wu dialect group it transliterates as Tsonkoh.
4. The shi had 5.969 million according to the 2010 census. Omitting the four xiàn reduces this to 4.298 million. (2010 census figures are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taizhou,_Zhejiang, accessed July 31, 2016.)
5. https://www.citypopulation.de/php/china-zhejiang-admin.php (accessed Aug. 2, 2016) provided the prefectural and sub-prefectural populations for 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Zhejiang, accessed on the same date provided the list of administrative changes 2000 to date, none of which were relevant to Tāizhōu. Excluding the same four xiàn as in 2010 yields a population of 3.604 million, with the shi without exclusions having 5.154 million in 2000 CE.
