Shandong Province, Jiaozhou City.

Not to be confused with the Jiaozhou mentioned in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which refers to the combined regions of Guangdong and Guangxi, now called Liangguang. The characters for the two Jiaozhou are different.

The name of the small bay on the peninsula, which made Zimook City prosperous, is called Jiaozhou Bay. If we look at geography alone, Jiaozhou City is in a far more advantageous position for trade than Zimook City, where ships must turn sharply to the right to enter the bay. Jiaozhou City doesn’t require ships to turn at all, the …