Taining County (simplified Chinese: 泰宁县; traditional Chinese: 泰寧縣; pinyin: Tàiníng Xiàn) is a county in the northwest of Fujian province, People's Republic of China.

It is the northernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Sanming.

Area: 1,535 square kilometres (593 sq mi).

[citation needed] Towns:[3] Townships: Due to the presence of the Wuyi Mountains, Taining County includes a number of notable parks of various types.

One of them, located in the central part of the range, after having been made a World Heritage Site, and qualifying as a UNESCO National Geopark, was certified in 2004 as a UNESCO Global Geopark in the Asia Pacific regional network.