Pingtang County

Pingtang County (<a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese_characters/UcAD6xXs">Chinese</a>: 平塘县; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: Píngtáng Xiàn) is a county in the <a href="/facts/Qiannan_Buyei_and_Miao_Autonomous_Prefecture/yq9C9H5t">Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture</a> of <a href="/facts/Guizhou/BWxNrucU">Guizhou</a> province, China, bordering <a href="/facts/Guangxi/1BIHzs3q">Guangxi</a> to the south. It is a high mountain valley and is inhabited mainly by members of the <a href="/facts/Buyei/1h0cACHS">Buyei</a> and <a href="/facts/Miao_people/HrGC8sCL">Miao</a> ethnic minorities, who together make up 55% of the county's population.
The county's area is 2,799.08 square km and at the 2010 Census its population was 228,560. The county's government is based in the town of Pinghu.
The <a href="/facts/Five_hundred_meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope/6ASExc9E">Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)</a> is located in the southwestern part of Pingtan County, near its Kedu and Tangbian Towns and Dongjia Township of the adjacent <a href="/facts/Luodian_County/sFRk5DkD">Luodian County</a>.

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Pingtang County