Pingtang County

Not to be confused with Pingtan County.

Pingtang County 平塘县
County
Pingtang Location of the seat in Guizhou Pingtang Pingtang (Southwest China)
Coordinates (Pingtang County government): 25°49′21″N 107°19′21″E
Country	China
Province	Guizhou
Autonomous prefecture	Qiannan
County seat	Jinpen
Area
• Total	2,799.08 km2 (1,080.73 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	228,377
• Density	81.5900/km2 (211.317/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

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Pingtang County (Chinese: 平塘县; pinyin: Píngtáng Xiàn) 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 (FAST) is located in the southwestern part of Pingtan County, near its Kedu and Tangbian Towns and Dongjia Township of the adjacent Luodian County.