Taizhou, located in the east of China and the middle of Jiangsu, is an important part of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration. It borders the Yangtze River in the south, Yancheng in the north, Nantong in the east and Yangzhou in the west. It is a land and water gateway connecting the north and the south. It has been known as "land and water gateway, throat according to county" since ancient times. 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".
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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, low in the north and south, and really high along the river in the south, usually 2 to 5 meters.
The true height in the central part of Gaosha is generally 5 ~ 7m, and that in the northern part of He Lixia is1.5 ~ 5m. 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.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Taizhou