The geography of historical Tibet

Tibet, located in central Asia, is a region in Asia which is currently, for the most part, part of China. China only recognizes roughly one third of actual historical Tibet as the real Tibet, which they call the Tibetan Autonomous Region, or TAR for short. Source: http://www. ... Source: http://www. ... The borders of Historical Tibet (blue), as claimed by the Government of Tibet in Exile. ... World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་, Pö Rangyongjong; Chinese: 西藏自治区, Xīzàng Zìzhìqū), is a province-level administrative subdivision of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...

Tibet is often called "the roof of the world," comprising table-lands averaging over 4950 m above the sea with peaks at 6000 to 7500 m and includes Mount Everest. The TAR is bounded on the north by and east by Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Sichuan, on the west by the Kashmir Region of India and on the south by Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. The entire Tibet Autonomous Region sits atop the southern part of a geological structure known as the Tibetan Plateau which extends beyond the TAR into neighboring provinces and countries and includes the Himalayas and many of the highest mountain peaks in the world. In addition, most of the rest of the Tibetan Plateau is part of "historic Tibet", and is populated by primarily Tibetans as well. (as mentioned above) Everest is the highest mountain on Earth (as measured from sea level). ... Xinjiang (Chinese: 新疆; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsin1-chiang1; Postal Pinyin: Sinkiang; literal meaning: New Frontier; Uyghur: ) Uyghurs Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), sometimes known as Chinese Turkestan, East Turkestan (Turkestan also spelled Turkistan) or Uyghuristan. ... Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor). ... Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sìchuān; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... Kashmir is a region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. ... The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་, Pö Rangyongjong; Chinese: 西藏自治区, Xīzàng Zìzhìqū), is a province-level administrative subdivision of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... NASA satellite image of Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau is a large, elevated region in Central Asia, covering much of Tibet. ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ...

Physically, the TAR may be divided into two parts, the "lake region" in the west and north-west, and the "river region", which spreads out on three sides of the former on the east, south, and west. Both regions receive limited amounts of rainfall as they lie in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, however the region names are useful in contrasting their hydrological structures, and also in contrasting their different cultural uses which is nomadic in the lake region and agricultural in the river region (see map of the land use patterns of historic Tibet (http://www.tew.org/geography/t2000.agricultural.html)) A rain shadow (or more accurately, precipitation shadow) is a dry region on the surface of the Earth that is leeward or behind a mountain with respect to the prevailing wind direction. ... Water covers 70% of the Earths surface. ... Communities of nomadic people move from place to place, rather than settling down in one location. ...

Tibet is a beautiful mountainous terrain.

The lake region extends from the Pangong t'so (t'so = lake) in Ladakh, near the source of the Indus River, to the sources of the Salween, the Mekong and the Yangtze. This region is called the Chang Tang (Byang sang) or 'Northern Plateau' by the people of Tibet. It is some 700 miles broad, and covers an area about equal to that of France. Due to its great distance from the ocean it is extremely arid and possesses no river outlet. The mountain ranges are spread out, rounded, disconnected, separated by flat valleys relatively of little depth. The country is dotted over with large and small lakes, generally salt or alkaline, and intersected by streams, and the soil is boggy and covered with tussocks of grass, thus resembling the Siberian tundra. Salt and fresh-water lakes are intermingled. The lakes are generally without outlet, or have only a small effluent. The deposits consist of soda, potash, borax and common salt. The lake region is noted for a vast number of hot springs, which are widely distributed between the Himalayas and 34° N., but are most numerous to the west of Tengri Nor (north-west of Lhasa). So intense is the cold in Tibet that these springs are sometimes represented by columns of ice, the nearly boiling water having frozen in the act of ejection. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Tikse monastery, Ladakh Hemis Monastery in the 1870s Ladakh is the largest district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, covering more than half the area of the state (of which it is the eastern part). ... The Indus (सिन्‍धु नदी) (known as Sindhu in ancient times) is the principal river of Pakistan. ... The Salween River (also spelt Salwin, a. ... View of the Mekong before the sunset The Mekong is one of the worlds major rivers. ... Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source  ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Yangtze River (Chinese: 扬子江; pinyin: ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in... The common (Arrhenius) definition of a base is a chemical compound that either donates hydroxide ions or absorbs hydrogen ions when dissolved in water. ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. ... Soda is a term used for sodium-containing chemical compounds. ... Potash Potash is the common name of potassium hydroxide (KOH), a substance that has been used since antiquity in the manufacture of glass and soap, and as a fertilizer. ... Borax, (Na2B4O7·10H2O, sodium borate or sodium tetraborate) is an important boron compound. ... In chemistry, salt is a general term used for ionic compounds composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ... Green Dragon Spring at Norris Geyser A hot spring is a place where warm or hot groundwater issues from the ground on a regular basis for at least a predictable part of the year, and is significantly above the ambient ground temperature (which is usually around 55~57 F or...

The river region comprises the upper courses of the Brahmaputra, the Salween, the Yangtze, the Mekong, and the Yellow River. Amidst the mountains there are many narrow valleys. Whereas the lake region is an arid and wind-swept desert, the river region is characterized by fertile mountain valleys. The valleys of Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse and the Brahmaputra are covered with good soil and groves of trees, are well irrigated, and richly cultivated. The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia. ... The Salween River (also spelt Salwin, a. ... Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source  ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Yangtze River (Chinese: 扬子江; pinyin: ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in... View of the Mekong before the sunset The Mekong is one of the worlds major rivers. ... For other Yellow Rivers, see Yellow River (disambiguation). ... This is about the capital city of Tibet. ... Shigatse (also Zhi-ga-tse, Xigatse, Tibetan: གཞི་ཀ་རྩེ་; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtsa; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkèzé) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ...

The valley of the Brahmaputra is the great arterial valley of southern Tibet. On the south it is bounded by the Himalayas, on the north by a broad mountain system. The system at no point narrows to a single range; generally there are three or four across its breadth. As a whole the system forms the watershed between rivers flowing to the Indian Ocean – the Indus, Brahmaputra and Salween and its tributaries – and the streams flowing into the undrained salt lakes to the north. Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ...

Reference

• This article originally incorporated text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

(Redirected from 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica) The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...

External link

• online collection of maps of Tibet maintained by The Australian National University (http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/TibPages/tib-maps.html)