Pingtang County should not be confused with Pingtan County.
| Pingtang County | |
| Native Name: | 平塘县 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-Hans |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Pushpin Map: | Guizhou#Southwest China |
| Pushpin Label: | Pingtang |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the seat in Guizhou |
| Coor Pinpoint: | Pingtang County government |
| Coordinates: | 25.8224°N 107.3226°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Guizhou |
| Subdivision Type2: | Autonomous prefecture |
| Subdivision Name2: | Qiannan |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Jinpen |
| Area Total Km2: | 2,799.08 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Total: | 228,377 |
| Timezone: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
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.[1]
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.
Pingtang County is divided into 1 subdistrict, 9 towns and 1 ethnic township:[2]
See main article: 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 in Pingtang.