Qieding District[2] (or Jiading; Chinese: 茄萣區; Hanyu Pinyin: Qiédìng Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Ciédìng Cyu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ka-tiāⁿ-khu) is a coastal suburban district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

This was then rendered as Ka-tang-tiāⁿ-á (茄苳萣仔)[3] and Ka-tiāⁿ-á (茄萣仔) in Taiwanese Hokkien and also Ka-tiāⁿ (茄萣) or Ka-têng (茄藤) with both sets of characters also referring to types of Avicennia (cf.

Following the 1945 handover of Taiwan, the name was romanized as Chiating via the Wade-Giles system.

The district's website uses several non-standard spellings including "Cieding",[4] "Cheting",[5] and "Chieting".

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Qieding was organized as a rural township of Kaohsiung County.