Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory

Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
膠州灣租借地 (Chinese)
Colony of the German Empire
1898–1914
Seal of
Seal

Contemporary German map of Kiautschou
CapitalTsingtau
Area 
• 1912
552 km2 (213 sq mi)
Population 
• 1912
  • 165,000 Chinese
  • 3,896 Europeans (3,806 German)[1]
Government
Governor 
• 1898–1899
Carl Rosendahl (first)
• 1911–1914
Alfred Meyer-Waldeck (last)
History 
• Leased to Germany
6 March 1898
7 November 1914
• Returned to China
10 December 1922
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Qing dynasty
Republic of China (1912–1949)
Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese膠州灣租借地
Simplified Chinese胶州湾租借地
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāozhōu Wān Zūjièdì
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinggaau1 zau1 waan1
German name
GermanKiautschou
Map of Kiautschou Bay with Tsingtau, 1905

The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory[a] was a German leased territory in Imperial and Early Republican China from 1898 to 1914. Covering an area of 552 km2 (213 sq mi), it centered on Kiautschou Bay (Jiaozhou Bay) on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula. The administrative center was at Tsingtau (Qingdao). It was operated by the East Asia Squadron of the Imperial German Navy. The Russian Empire resented the German move as an infringement on Russian ambitions in the region.

  1. ^ Keltie p. 895


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