新平县位于云南中部偏西南,东与峨山毗邻,东南同石屏、元江接壤,西南与墨江相连,西与镇沅为邻,北面隔墨汁江与双柏相望。面积4223km~2,人口25.2万,辖12个乡镇。系哀牢山山脉南段,海拔422～3137m,年平均气温17℃,平均降雨量947mm。历史上曾有鼠疫流行,属历史疫区县。 Xinping County is located in the central part of Yunnan Province, southwest, east and adjacent to Asan, southeast of the same screen, the border of the Yuanjiang, southwest and connected to the Mojiang, west and Zhenyuan adjacent to the north across the ink River and double cypress across. Area of ​​4223km ~ 2, population 252,000, administer 12 townships. Department of Ailao Mountain South, elevation 422 ~ 3137m, the annual average temperature of 17 ℃, the average rainfall of 947mm. There was a history of plague epidemic, a historical epidemic area counties.