Pingdu
county-level city in Shandong, People's Republic of China
Pingdu (Chinese: 平度; pinyin: Píngdù) is the largest county-level city of Qingdao sub-provincial city, Shandong Province, China.
It is located in the east of the Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula), the heart of peninsula. It borders Yantai and Weifang, and it has an area of 3,166 km2 (1,222 sq mi) and a population of 1,191,348 people in 2020.
Administration
The administrative divisions of Pingdu have undergone a relatively large number of changes in the past thirty years. As of 2016, Pingdu had five subdistricts, 12 towns and one other area:
As of 2016, this city is divided to 5 subdistricts, 12 towns and 1 other.
Subdistricts
Towns
Others
Pingdu Export-oriented Industrial Processing Zone (平度外向型工业加工区)
Sports
The Pingdu Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, which has a capacity of 15,000, is the largest sports venue by capacity in Pingdu.
Transportation
Pingdu West railway station opened in 2015 on the Haitian−Qingdao railway. There are two departures and two arrivals per day. A second station, Pingdu railway station, opened with the Weifang–Laixi high-speed railway in 2020.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pingdu” as county-level city in Shandong, People's Republic of China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as county-level city in Shandong, People's Republic of China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2060398. VIAF identifies the subject as 172431685. The Library of Congress control number is n2011047010. Authority coordinates are 36.783, 119.956. 3 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2016 and 2015.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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