Kiao-chau, a province of Shantung, China; occupied by Germany in 1897, and ceded to her on a 99 years' lease by China in 1898; extends to about 160 m. along the coast, and about 20 m. inland.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kiakhta * Kidd, William