Jiaozhou

• Kiaochow

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 膠州／胶州 (Jiāozhōu).

Jiaozhou

1. A county-level city in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
   • 2020 August 24, “BRI-themed contest of “Tell China’s Stories” Contest 2020 launched in Jiaozhou, Qingdao”, in PR Newswire via AP News‎, archived from the original on 21 May 2022‎:

     A contest on the theme of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the “Tell China’s Stories” Contest 2020 was launched in Jiaozhou of Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province, on August 21, 2020. […] Liu Jianjun, member of the Standing Committee of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Jiaozhou Municipal Party Committee, and secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Demonstration Zone for Local Economic and Trade Cooperation [of Qingdao], said that Jiaozhou, Qingdao being chosen as the launch location reflected the concrete efforts that Qingdao has made in implementing President Xi Jinping’s directive on building a new platform for international cooperation under the BRI framework, and was a vivid example of achieving economic integration, cultural sharing, and people-to-people communication among BRI countries and regions.

• Jiaozhou, Kiaochow, Jiao Xian at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiaozhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 2: “Formerly called Jiao Xian.”