Pizhou city (邳州; pinyin: pīzhōu) is a county-level city of Jiangsu province, in China. Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the... Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江苏; Traditional Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: Jiāngsū; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ...

History

Its old name is Pi County (邳县), and before that, Xia Pi (下邳).

Geography

It lies in the northeast of Xuzhou City at the cross point of the Grand Channel and LongHai Railway. To the north of Pizhou, there is the famous Taierzhuang Town of Zaozhuang City of Shandong Province. During World War II, the Taierzhuang Battle (台儿庄战役) happened there. In the Chinese civil war, it was the scene of the Huaihai Battle. Shandong (Simplified Chinese: 山东; Traditional Chinese: 山東; pinyin: Shāndōng; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Chinese Civil War was a conflict in China between the Kuomintang (the Nationalist Party; KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). ...