Pingluo County (,

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: پِئٍ‌لُوَ ثِيًا) is a

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under the administration of the

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Shizuishan Shizuishan, formerly Shizuizi, is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It is the northernmost prefecture in Ningxia and the second most populous, after the regional capital Yinchuan, bor ...

in the north of the

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was later separated from Gansu in 1958 and reconstituted as an autonomous ...

of the

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, bordering

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to the northwest and east. It has a total area of , and a population of approximately 290,000 people.

Characteristics

Situated on the shore of the

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basin, Pingluo County is a well-known agricultural county. Although large and widespread areas of the county consist of low-lying swamps with high salt and alkali content that remain uncultivated, residents still use high-tech methods to undertake agriculture. Today, wheat is the primary crop, because the long sunlight hours in the county are conducive to its cultivation. The county's postal code is 753400.

Administrative divisions

Pingluo County has 7 towns and 6 townships. ;7 towns * Chengguan (, ) * Taole (, ) * Chonggang (, ) * Yaofu (, ) * Touzha (, ) * Baofeng (, ) * Huangquqiao (, ) ;6 townships * Tongfu (, ) * Qukou (, ) * Lingsha (, ) * Gaoren () * Gaozhuang () * Hongyazi ()

Climate

References

County-level divisions of Ningxia Shizuishan Long stubs with short prose {{ningxia-geo-stub