St. Joseph, Tseng

St. Joseph (Chinese: 聖約瑟夫市) is the second-largest city and former capital of Georgeville (Caoning). It is colloquially known by its former name Jiangqing (Chinese: 江清). St. Joseph is often made fun of by Tsengian media due to the disproportionate amount of disasters the city receives considered to other Tseng cities. As a result the city is called "City of Hell" or the "City of Disasters".

History
The current site of St. Joseph was founded in 698 BC (making it one of the oldest cities in Tseng) by Emperor Qiang of Jiang. It was named Jiangming and was the capital of the Jiang Kingdom until 1405, when the Ming Dynasty looted and destroyed Jiangming.

In the 1700s, when the Qing arrived in Tseng, they redeveloped the town and named it Jiangqing. In 1894, the British took control of the Qing's territory and named it St. Joseph, after the, whose day is celebrated on the same time Qing Tseng got annexed by the British.

In 1896, the first movement in the Tsengian independence movement started in St. Joseph, being the anti-colonialist 1896 St. Joseph riots. Until the 1909 earthquake, St. Joseph was the capital of the Georgeville area. Since the earthquake, each census, St. Joseph's population has been declining.

Politics
The city's mayor is named Li Yao (PDP).

Administrative divisions

 * North District
 * South District
 * East District

Geography
St. Joseph is located on the coast of western Tseng.

Transportation
St. Joseph-Jiangqing Airport serves Taihua by air, while Highway A2 is the city's main motorway to Taihua.

Disasters
Since its destruction in 1405 St. Joseph has had its fair share of bad luck. Here's a list of all disasters the city has been through.


 * 1405: Burning of Jiangming: Ming soldiers burn the capital of Jiangming.
 * 1704: Smallpox outbreak: 59 people die of the disease.
 * 1746: Jiangqing tsunami: The tsunami completely flattens 90% of the city and kills 102 people.
 * 1822: Jiangqing heatwave: A period of high temperatures in June-July 1822 kills 67 people.
 * 1894: Battle of Jiangqing: British and Qing soldiers fight, burning and looting the city in the process. The British win and almost all of Tseng is under European control.
 * 1909: St. Joseph earthquake: 97% of the city is destroyed in a violent 7.5 earthquake.
 * 1919: Spanish flu outbreak: The Spanish flu reached Tseng in November 1918 and in January 1919, it reached St. Joseph, killing 20% of the population of the time, compared to 2% in Tseng City.
 * 1934: St. Joseph flood: Due to St. Joseph being in a flat plain the 1934 flood nearly submerged the city. So the mayor of that time, C.R. Wang, decides to move the city to a higher altitude, to the hills east of the city.
 * 1937: Bombing of St. Joseph: The city is bombed by the Japanese.
 * 1944: Bombing of St. Joseph (again): The city is bombed by the Allies.
 * 1959-60: Yellow fever outbreak: In November 1959, a biologist who traveled to Nigeria is infected with yellow fever, and spreads it to the city. Later, the outbreak spreads to Taihua and Hillsborough, but not Tseng City.
 * 1977: St. Joseph heatwave: In August 1977, unusually high temperatures hit Georgeville, with the most affected being St. Joseph and area.
 * 1995: St. Joseph tornado: On June 5, 1995, a thunderstorm and F2 tornado hits St. Joseph. It caused around US$150 million in damages.
 * 2006: Taihua earthquake: The city is affected by the powerful Taihua earthquake, and 98 people die.
 * 2019: St. Joseph flood: A flood submerges about 70% of the city, far less than the 1934 flood.
 * 2020-present: COVID-19 pandemic in the Tseng Republic: St. Joseph is one of the cities affected by COVID-19. There were 97 cases and 6 deaths in St. Joseph by the end of 2020.