Pinggau is a municipality in the district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, in the Austrian state of Styria. It lies in the eastern part of the country, within the federal province of Styria, whose capital is Graz.
As a municipality, Pinggau is one of the local administrative units that make up the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district. The district itself was formed within the Styrian regional administration, and Pinggau belongs to this structure alongside the other towns and villages of the area.
Beyond its status as a municipality in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, Styria, few further details are established in the available source material. It is best understood as one of the many small communities that together form the administrative fabric of eastern Styria.