Pingya | |
Official Name: | Pingya Tibetan Ethnic Township |
Native Name: | 坪垭藏族乡 Tibetan: ཕིང་ཡག་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་། |
Population Total: | 6350 |
Population As Of: | 2018 |
Pushpin Map: | Gansu |
Coordinates: | 33.5229°N 104.6805°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Gansu |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Longnan |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Wudu |
Elevation Max M: | 3200 |
Elevation Max Footnotes: | [1] |
Settlement Type: | Ethnic township |
Pingya is a township of Wudu District, Longnan, China. It has a population of 6350 as of 2020, divided over 9 villages and 18 residential communities.[2] [3] Between 2016 and 2018, 5,731 people of the township were resettled from a mountaintop to the Bailong River valley as part of poverty alleviation efforts, to improve transportation and available amenities.[4] [5]