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With progressive advances, current spatial transcriptomic techniques can achieve the cellular or even the subcellular resolution, making it possible to explore the fine-grained spatial pattern of cell types within one tissue section. However, most existing cell spatial clustering methods require a correct specification of the cell type number, which is hard to determine in the practical exploratory data analysis. To address this issue, we present a nonparametric Bayesian model BACT to perform BAyesian Cell Typing by utilizing gene expression information and spatial coordinates of cells. BACT incorporates a nonparametric Potts prior to induce neighboring cells\u2019 spatial dependency, and, more importantly, it can automatically learn the cell type number directly from the data without prespecification. Evaluations on three single-cell spatial transcriptomic datasets demonstrate the better performance of BACT than competing spatial cell typing methods. 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