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Tibet (/ t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t / ⓘ; Tibetan: བོད, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøːʔ˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 西藏; pinyin: Xīzàng), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the central part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi). It is the homeland of the Tibetan people.
- PRC Annexation
Background. Tibet came under the control of the Qing dynasty...
- Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang...
- Tibetan Empire
The Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po,...
- Mount Everest
In Tibet, by 28 April at least 25 had died, and 117 were...
- History of Tibet
While the Tibetan plateau has been inhabited since...
- Definitions of Tibet
"Tibet" is a term for the major elevated plateau in Central...
- Independent Tibet
Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Wylie: Bod) was a de facto independent...
- South Tibet
South Tibet is a literal translation of the Chinese term '...
- History of Tibet (1950–present)
The history of Tibet from 1950 to the present includes the...
- PRC Annexation
The Tibetic languages ( Tibetan: བོད་སྐད།) are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by approximately 8 million people, primarily Tibetan, living across a wide area of East and South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan.
4 days ago · 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.
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