Tibet Autonomous Region
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Tibet Autonomous Region

ChineseName西藏自治区
PinyinXīzàng Zìzhìqū
EnglishNameTibet Autonomous Region
LocalTranscription1Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs
LocalLanguage1Tibetan
LocalLanguage2Tibetan
DesignatedMinorityTibetan
Headerབོད་ རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་ (Tibetan)
Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs (Wylie)
西藏自治区 (Chinese)
Xīzàng Zìzhìqū (Pinyin)
Tibet Autonomous Region
NameTibet
MapLabelTibet Autonomous Region is highlighted on this map
Abbreviation
AbbrevPinyinZàng
ISOAbbrev54
MapSize275px
OriginOfNameFrom word Tibat of disputed origin.
AdministrationTypeAutonomous region
CapitalLhasa
LargestCityLhasa
Official LanguagesTibetan, Chinese
SecretaryZhang Qingli
GovernorPadma Choling
Area Km21228400
AreaRank2nd
Latitude27° 18' to 36° 29' N
Longitude78° 55' to 99° 07' E
PopYear2009
Pop2,910,000
PopRank32nd
PopDensity Km22.2
PopDensityRank33rd
GDPYear2009
GDP44.1 billion
GDPRank32nd
GDPperCapita15,141
GDPperCapitaRank28th
HDIYear2008
HDI0.630
HDIRank31st
HDICatmedium
Nationalities92.8% Tibetan
6.1% Han
0.3% Hui
0.3% Monpa
0.2% others
Prefectures7
Counties73
Townships692
Websitehttp://www.xizang.gov.cn/

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The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Tibet for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region ( ; ) is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC) created in 1965.

Within the People's Republic of China, Tibet is identified with the Autonomous Region, which includes about half of ethno-cultural Tibet, including the traditional provinces of Ü-Tsang and the western half of Kham. Its borders coincide roughly with the actual zone of control of the government of Tibet in 1950. The Tibet Autonomous Region is the second-largest province-level division of China by area (spanning over 470000 sqmi (1217294.4 km2)) after Xinjiang. Unlike other autonomous regions, the vast majority of inhabitants are of the local ethnicity.

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Rural investigation - Global Times Tweet this news
Global Times---...- visit 3000 farmers' homes in 150 counties across the country, with the exception of the -Tibet Autonomous Region- and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. ... - Date : Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:26:36 GMT+00:00
China emerging new hub of trafficking Nepali girls - Republica Tweet this news
Republica--HONG KONG, Jan 26: Chairman of Maiti Nepal Anuradha Koirala has claimed that the -Tibet Autonomous Region- of China and Macau have been developing as a new ... - Date : Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:17:51 GMT+00:00
<B>Ajai Shukla:</B> Er? by the way, Tibet! - Business Standard Tweet this news
Business Standard--Lao Daku, the chief of the feared -Tibet Autonomous Region- Public Security Bureau (TARPSB), declares in a Tibetan language Internet article published in his ... - Date : Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:30:19 GMT+00:00
Tibetan antelope population hits 200000 in Tibet - China.org.cn Tweet this news
China.org.cn--The population of Tibetan antelopes, once a critically-endangered species, has risen to 200000 in southwest China's -Tibet Autonomous Region-, a specialist on ... - Date : Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:58:22 GMT+00:00
Chamdo to be China's national mineral base - Tibetan Review Tweet this news
Tibetan Review--He was attending the ongoing session of the -Tibet Autonomous Region- People's Congress in Lhasa. The main mineral reserves were reported to consist of 52 ... - Date : Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:15:48 GMT+00:00
China's Discovery Boom: Large Oil and Gas Fields Detected Offshore - OilPrice.com Tweet this news
OilPrice.com--And a 2.46-million-ton lithium carbonate mine has been located in Southwest China's -Tibet autonomous region-, which will reduce the cost of lithium ... - Date : Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:23:24 GMT+00:00
Fast train link to China's “24th province” soon - The Temasek Review Tweet this news
The Temasek Review--China's southern GuangXi Zhuang -autonomous region- will make building a high-speed rail link from its main city of Nanning to connect to a planned ... - Date : Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:22:59 GMT+00:00
Tibet Expects 7.5 Million Tourists In 2011 - Bernama Tweet this news
Bernama--LHASA, Jan 19 (Bernama) -- Southwest China's -Tibet Autonomous Region- is striving to become a major destination for worldwide sightseers with an estimated ... - Date : Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:03:22 GMT+00:00
China discovers 2.46 million tons of lithium in Tibet - Tibetan Review Tweet this news
Tibetan Review--(TibetanReview.net, Jan18, 2011) China said Jan 15 that it had discovered a 2.46-million-ton lithium carbonate mine in -Tibet Autonomous Region- (TAR), ... - Date : Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:54:56 GMT+00:00
Canadian paleontologists reveal earthly origins of mysterious Tibetan footprints - Montreal Gazette Tweet this news
Montreal Gazette--Xing said the Gesar epic is captured in "folk tales, legends, folk songs and proverbs," from the mountainous, semi--autonomous region- of China. ... - Date : Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:23:23 GMT+00:00

Administrative divisions :
Map # Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative Seat
- Prefecture-level city -
5 Lhasa 拉萨市 Lāsà Shì ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ Lha-sa Grong-khyer Chengguan District
- Prefecture -
1 Ngari 阿里地区 Ālǐ Dìqū མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ་ Mnga'-ris Sa-khul Gar County
2 Nagqu 那曲地区 Nàqū Dìqū ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་ Nag-chu Sa-khul Nagqu County
3 Qamdo 昌都地区 Chāngdū Dìqū ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་ Chab-mdo Sa-khul Qamdo County
4 Xigazê 日喀则地区 Rìkāzé Dìqū གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ས་ཁུལ་ Gzhis-ka-rtse Sa-khul Xigazê
6 Shannan 山南地区 Shānnán Dìqū ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ་ Lho-kha Sa-khul Nêdong County
7 Nyingchi 林芝地区 Línzhī Dìqū ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ་ Nying-khri Sa-khul Nyingchi County

Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China

ProvincesAnhui * Fujian * Gansu * Guangdong * Guizhou * Hainan * Hebei * Heilongjiang * Henan * Hubei * Hunan * Jiangsu * Jiangxi * Jilin * Liaoning * Qinghai * Shaanxi * Shandong * Shanxi * Sichuan * Taiwan* * Yunnan * Zhejiang |
*The People's Republic of China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, but does not control any of this territory, which is controlled by the Republic of China
Autonomous regionsGuangxi * Inner Mongolia * Ningxia * Tibet * Xinjiang |
MunicipalitiesBeijing * Chongqing * Shanghai * Tianjin |
Special Administrative
Regions
Hong Kong * Macau |
Territorial disputesParacel Islands * Pratas Islands * Senkaku Islands * Spratly Islands * South Tibet * Taiwan, Kinmen & Matsu Islands (see Legal status of Taiwan) |

Tibetan autonomous areas in the People's Republic of China

Regions
TibetLhasa * Nagqu * Qamdo * Shannan * Xigazê * Ngari * Nyingchi
Provinces
QinghaiHaibei * Hainan * Haixi (Mongols and Tibetans) * Huangnan * Golog * Yushu
SichuanGarzê * Ngawa (Tibetans and Qiang) * Muli
GansuGannan * Tenzhu
YunnanDêqên



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