"Pingtang County (Chinese: \u5E73\u5858\u53BF; pinyin: P\u00EDngt\u00E1ng Xi\u00E0n) is a county in the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou, in southwest China. 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 2,816 square km and in 2002 its population was approximately 300,000."@en .