- Tibet - Wikipedia
Tibet ( t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t ⓘ; Tibetan: བོད, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøːʔ˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 西藏 [6]; pinyin: Xizang), or Greater Tibet, [7] is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 470,000 sq mi (1,200,000 km 2)
- Tibet | History, Map, Capital, Population, Language, Facts | Britannica
Tibet, historic region and autonomous region of China that is often called ‘the roof of the world ’ It occupies a vast area of plateaus and mountains in Central Asia, including Mount Everest The name Tibet is derived from the Mongolian Thubet, the Chinese Tufan, the Tai Thibet, and the Arabic Tubbat
- Tibet - WorldAtlas
Tibet, nicknamed “the roof of the world,” is an autonomous region of China occupying the vast Tibetan Plateau The region is China’s second-largest provincial-level entity after Xinjian, covering over 1 2 million square kilometers (almost half of the Tibet plateau)
- Tibet - New World Encyclopedia
Tibet, called “Bod” by Tibetans, or 西藏 (Xīzàng) by the Chinese, is a plateau region in Central Asia and the indigenous home to the Tibetan people With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters) it is the highest region on earth and is commonly referred to as the "Roof of the World "
- Tibet: History, Religion, Tibetan People, Food - China Highlights
Tibet is a part of China's territory and is located in southwest of the People's Republic of China It is one of China's provinces and its full name is Tibet Autonomous Region See how "the roof of the world" differs from the provincial-level territory of Tibet on The Tibetan Plateau
- Tibet At A Glance - International Tibet Network
When Tibetans refer to ‘Tibet’ they are talking about the entity comprising the three provinces of U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo The two Tibetan provinces of Kham and Amdo are now largely incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Qinghai and Sichuan (upper right regions in brown on the map below)
- Tibet at a Glance - Central Tibetan Administration
The term TIBET here means the whole of Tibet known as Cholka-Sum (U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo) It includes the present-day Chinese administrative areas of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province, two Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures and one Tibetan Autonomous County in Sichuan Province, on
- Tibet - Xizang - Bod - China - Asia - Nations Online Project
Tibet is located on the northern side of the Himalayas, north of India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar (Burma) on the barren tableland of the Tibetan Plateau, the world's highest region with an average altitude of more than 4,000 m above sea level
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