Huangping County is under the jurisdiction of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province. The name of the county originates from the old state, and it is named after the flat earth, which is yellow.

Huangping County is located in the southeast of Guizhou Province and the northwest of southeastern Guizhou Province. East boundary Shibing, south adjacent to Taijiang, Kaili, west even Weng 'an, Fuquan, north and Yuqing border. According to the seventh census, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Huangping County was 244,125.

As of 2019, the county covers an area of 1,668 square kilometers, and has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 3 townships, 142 administrative villages and 9 communities. The total population of the county is 398,000, among which the Miao nationality and other ethnic minorities account for 68.5%.

Huangping County famous figures have anti-Japanese general Zhang Zigang, democratic personage Wu Shaofeng, etc.; Scenic spots are Feiyun Grand Canyon, Wild Cave River, Wave Hole hot spring, Gulong Dazhai, Taiping Cave Miao Zhai, etc. Huangping is a national key ecological function reserve, the hometown of Chinese modern folk painting, the hometown of Chinese mud whistle art, the hometown of Chinese high-quality seedless watermelon, and the hometown of Guizhou Governor's birthday.

On September 25, 2018, Huangping County won the honorary title of "2018 E-commerce into Rural Comprehensive Demonstration County" by the Ministry of Commerce. On March 3, 2020, the government withdrew from the list of poverty-stricken counties and realized poverty alleviation. In 2020, the GDP of Huangping County was 6.935 billion yuan, an increase of 4.6% over the previous year.