Pingtang County
Pingtang County is a county in the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It is a high mountain valley and is inhabited mainly by members of the Buyei and Miao 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 Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope is located in the southwestern part of Pingtan County, near its Kedu and Tangbian Towns and Dongjia Township of the adjacent Luodian County.Administrative divisions
The towns and townships under the jurisdiction of Pingtang County include:Towns
- Pinghu
- Bairu
- Tongzhou
- Yazhou
- Datang
- Kedu
- Tangbian
- Zhemi
- Sizhai
Townships
- Bailong
- Xintang
- Kapu Maonan Ethnic Township
- Xiliang
- Kaluo
- Gudong
- Zhangbu
- Shuchang
- Ganzhai
- Miao'erhe
Curiosities
In June 2002, Chinese researchers announced the discovery of a 270-million-year-old stone called Hidden character stone inscribed with six Chinese characters, reading "中国共产党亡" at the Zhangbu Scenic Spot in Zhangbu village.Climate
