Pingtang County () is a county in the

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (; Buyei: ''Qianfnanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz ziqziqzouy''; Hmu: ''Qeef Naif Dol Yat Dol Hmub Zid Zid Zeb'') is an autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, bordering Guangxi to ...

Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...

province, China, bordering

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

to the south. It is a high mountain valley and is inhabited mainly by members of the

Buyei The Bouyei (also spelled ''Puyi'', ''Buyei'' and ''Buyi''; self called: Buxqyaix, or "Puzhong", "Burao", "Puman"; ; vi, người Bố Y), otherwise known as the Zhongjia, are an ethnic group living in Southern Mainland China. Numbering 2.5 mil ...

and

Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicode ...

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 (FAST) is located in the southwestern part of Pingtan County, near its Kedu and Tangbian Towns and Dongjia Township of the adjacent

Luodian County Luodian County () is a county under the administration of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Guizhou province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. The climate in the area is humid subtropical, with strong monsoon inf ...

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 Hidden Character Stone () is a stone located in a scenic area in the town of Zhangbu (), Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou. The stone features several glyph-like patterns on its surface that have been tenta ...

inscribed with six Chinese characters, reading "" ("the Communist Party of China Perish") at the Zhangbu Scenic Spot in Zhangbu village ().

Climate

References

External links

Map of Pingtang County
{{authority control County-level divisions of Guizhou Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture