Pingtang County () is a county in the
Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Qiannan Bouyei people, Buyei and Miao people, Miao Autonomous Prefecture ( zh, s=黔南布依族苗族自治州 , p=Qiánnán Bùyīzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu; Buyei language, Buyei: ''Qianfnanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz ziqziqzouy''; Hmu language, Hmu: ' ...
of
Guizhou
)
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province, China, bordering
Guangxi
Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...
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 (FAST) 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
Pingtang County is divided into 1
subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district.
Equivalents
* Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language
* Kelurahan, in Indonesia
* Mukim, a township in Brunei, Ind ...
, 9
towns
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
and 1
ethnic township:
;subdistrict
*Jinpen Subdistrict 金盆街道
;towns
*Pingzhou Town 平舟镇
*Yazhou Town 牙舟镇
*Tongzhou Town 通州镇
*Datang Town 大塘镇
*Kedu Town 克度镇
*Tangbian Town 塘边镇
*Jiacha Town 甲茶镇
*Zhemi Town 者密镇
*Zhangbu Town 掌布镇
;ethnic township
*Kapu Maonan Ethnic Township 卡蒲毛南族乡
Curiosities
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
The world's largest
filled-aperture radio telescope,
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is located in the Dawodang, a natural
sinkhole
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water ...
in Pingtang.
Climate
References
External links
Map of Pingtang County
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Counties of Guizhou
Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture