[4] It had 4,904,701 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 1,756,333 lived in the built-up (or metro) area including Ye county being conurbated.

[4] Pingdingshan borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the north, Xuchang and Luohe to the east, Zhumadian to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, and Luoyang to the west.

The Funiu Mountains run through the west of Pingdingshan, and the North China Plains occupy the city's eastern portion.

[4] Since July 2021, Zhang Leiming [zh] has served as Pingdingshan's Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary.

[citation needed] Zhang Leiming, the current CCP Municipal Committee Secretary, had served as the Mayor from January 2018 until July 2021.

[10] According to a 2019 publication by the city's government, there are 79,467 people (1.8% of the total population) in Pingdingshan who are ethnic minorities, representing 48 different recognized groups.

[17][18] Sodium and iron are mined on a large-scale in Pingdingshan,[4] and other mineral resources include manganese, aluminum, fluorite, and gypsum.

[citation needed] The city also 230 billion tons of salt reserves, ranking first in Henan province, second in China.

[11] On April 25, 1948, Comrade Deng Xiaoping held a joint meeting of the revolutionary committee at the China Gospel Fellowship Church which was used as a memorial hall.