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Pingtang County
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 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 | |
| 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.
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, 9 towns 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
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.
Climate
|Jan record high C = 24.6 |Jan record low C = -4.0 |Feb record high C = 32.2 |Feb record low C = −4.1 |Mar record high C = 33.4 |Mar record low C = −1.7 |Apr record high C = 35.4 |Apr record low C = 2.4 |May record high C = 34.9 |May record low C = 6.8 |Jun record high C = 34.2 |Jun record low C = 12.5 |Jul record high C = 36.1 |Jul record low C = 13.8 |Aug record high C = 36.6 |Aug record low C = 15.1 |Sep record high C = 35.8 |Sep record low C = 10.0 |Oct record high C = 33.5 |Oct record low C = 4.9 |Nov record high C = 30.3 |Nov record low C = −1.2 |Dec record high C = 27.9 |Dec record low C = −5.1
References
References
- Kuang MG. (July 1986). "[Develop family planning work based on the reality of minority regions]". Renkou Yanjiu.
- link. [[National Bureau of Statistics of China]]
- link. [[China Meteorological Administration]]
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