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1 day ago · Place in China Tibet Sovereign state China Capital Lhasa Area • Total 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi) Population • 2023 estimate 7,000,000 (Tibetan people) Map of Greater Tibet consist of Ü-Tsang, Kham and Amdo. Modern states consist of Tibet Autonomous Region + Parts of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Also, a large part of present-day Uyghuristan and parts of India, Nepal, Bhutan ...
- PRC Annexation
Both the PRC and their predecessors the Kuomintang (ROC) had...
- Tibetan Empire
The Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po,...
- Mount Everest
North Face of Everest as seen from the path to North Base...
- Definitions of Tibet
In English. The first known written use of the English...
- PRC Annexation
1 day ago · Etymology. According to early Spanish articles, the Lima area was once called Itchyma, [citation needed] after its original inhabitants. However, even before the Inca occupation of the area in the 15th century, a famous oracle in the Rímac Valley had come to be known by visitors as Limaq (Limaq, pronounced , which means "talker" or "speaker" in the coastal Quechua that was the area's primary ...
1 day ago · The English name Faroe Islands (alt. Faeroe or the Faroes) derives from the Old Norse Færeyjar, which is also the origin of the country's modern-day endonym Føroyar. The element oyar ('islands') is a holdover from Old Faroese ; sound changes have rendered the word's modern form as oyggjar .
1 day ago · Valencia ( Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ⓘ, officially in Valencian: València [vaˈlensia]) [a] is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name. It is the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023) within the Ciudad de Valencia [1] and 1,582,387 inhabitants (2021) within metropolis of the ...
1 day ago · New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ, Kanak: Kanaky) is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
1 day ago · Chișinău ( / ˌkɪʃɪˈnaʊ / KISH-in-OW, US also / ˌkiːʃiːˈnaʊ / kee-shee-NOW, Romanian: [kiʃiˈnəw] ⓘ ), formerly known as Kishinev, [a] is the capital and largest city of Moldova. [8] The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc, a tributary of the ...
