བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་  (Tibetan) Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs  (Wylie) 西藏自治区  (Chinese) Xīzàng Zìzhìqū  (Pinyin) Tibet Autonomous Region
Abbreviations: 藏  (pinyin: Zàng)
Origin of name	See Origin of name
Administration type	Autonomous region
Capital (and largest city)	Lhasa
CPC Ctte Secretary	Zhang Qingli
Chairman	Qiangba Puncog
Area	1,228,400 km² (2nd)
Population (2004)  - Density	2,740,000 (31st) 2.2/km² (31st)
GDP (2006)  - per capita	CNY 29.01 billion (31st) CNY 10,322 (26th)
HDI (2005)	0.586 (medium) (31st)
Major nationalities	92.8% Tibetan 6.1% Han 0.3% Hui 0.3% Monpa 0.2% others
Prefecture-level	7 divisions
County-level	73 divisions
Township-level†	692 divisions
ISO 3166-2	CN-54
Official website http://www.xizang.gov.cn/
Source for population and GDP data: 《中国统计年鉴—2005》 China Statistical Yearbook 2005 ISBN 7503747382 Source for nationalities data: 《2000年人口普查中国民族人口资料》 Tabulation on nationalities of 2000 population census of China ISBN 7105054255 † As at December 31, 2004

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་; Wylie: Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs; simplified Chinese: 西藏自治区; traditional Chinese: 西藏自治區; pinyin: Xīzàng Zìzhìqū), is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This article is about historical/cultural Tibet. ... Tibet can refer to The historical Tibet, The Tibet Autonomous Region, a Peoples Republic of Chinas region The Tibetan Plateau, a geographical region Tibet can also refer to Tibet (comics), a Belgian comic book creator Category: ... The Tibetan language is spoken primarily by the Tibetan people who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, as well as by large number of Tibetan refugees all over the world. ... The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language typewriter. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Made by uploader based on a large scale map of China by woodhome and hunry of the XZQH forums. ... This article is about historical/cultural Tibet. ... An autonomous region, used in the context of China, translates for zizhiqu (自治区 z qū), which are province-level divisions with a designated ethnic minority, and are guaranteed more rights under the constitution than provinces. ... For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation). ... 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Within the PRC, the TAR is identified with Tibet, the TAR includes about half of historic Tibet, including the traditional provinces of Ü-Tsang and Kham (western half). Its borders coincide roughly with the actual zone of control of the government of Tibet before 1959. This article is about historical/cultural Tibet. ... Ãœ-Tsang (Wylie transliteration: Dbus-gtsang, Tibetan: དབུསགཙང་ Simplified Chinese: 卫藏; Traditional Chinese: 衛藏; pinyin: ), or Tsang-Ãœ, is one of the traditional provinces of Tibet, the others being Amdo and Kham. ... Situation of the east Tibetan region of Kham Kham (Wylie transliteration: Khams; Tibetan: ཁམས; Simplified Chinese: 康; Pinyin: Kāng) province is one of several provinces comprising traditional Tibet (the others are Amdo and Ãœ-Tsang). ...

Unlike other autonomous regions, the vast majority of Tibetans are of the local ethnicity. As a result, there is debate surrounding the extent of actual autonomy in the TAR. The opinion of the PRC is that the TAR has ample autonomy, as guaranteed under Articles 111-122 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China as well as the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy of the People's Republic of China. However, many human rights organizations around the world accuse the Chinese government of persecuting and oppressing the local population [1] The Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China (中华人民共和国宪法; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Xiànfǎ) is the highest law within the Peoples Republic of China. ...

History

See also: History of the political divisions of China

Before 1959, the present extent of the TAR (comprising Ü-Tsang and western Kham) was governed by the government of Tibet headed by the Dalai Lama. The Government of Tibet in Exile characterizes the area as an independent and sovereign nation, while the governments of the People's Republic of China. Other parts of historic Tibet (eastern Kham and Amdo) were not under the administration of the Tibetan government during the twentieth century; today they are distributed among the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Tibetan plateau Tibet is situated between the two ancient civilizations of China and India, but the tangled mountain ranges of the Tibetan Plateau and the towering Himalayas serve to distance it from both. ... This article talks about the history of the political divisions of China. ... Ãœ-Tsang (Wylie transliteration: Dbus-gtsang, Tibetan: དབུསགཙང་ Simplified Chinese: 卫藏; Traditional Chinese: 衛藏; pinyin: ), or Tsang-Ãœ, is one of the traditional provinces of Tibet, the others being Amdo and Kham. ... Situation of the east Tibetan region of Kham Kham (Wylie transliteration: Khams; Tibetan: ཁམས; Simplified Chinese: 康; Pinyin: Kāng) province is one of several provinces comprising traditional Tibet (the others are Amdo and Ãœ-Tsang). ... This article is about the Dalai Lama lineage. ... Official language Tibetan Headquarters Dharamsala Head of State (Dalai Lama) Tenzin Gyatso National Anthem Tibetan National Anthem, (Link) The Government of Tibet in Exile, officially named the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a theocratic government-like entity headed by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai... This article discusses states as sovereign political entities. ... Situation of the east Tibetan region of Kham Kham (Wylie transliteration: Khams; Tibetan: ཁམས; Simplified Chinese: 康; Pinyin: Kāng) province is one of several provinces comprising traditional Tibet (the others are Amdo and Ãœ-Tsang). ... Situation of the east Tibetan region of Amdo Amdo (Tibetan: ཨ༌མདོ, Chinese: 安多, Pinyin: Ä€nduō) is one of the three former provinces of Tibet, the other two being Ãœ-Tsang and Kham; it is also the place from which Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, comes from. ... Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai; Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་ mtsho-sngon; Mongolian: Köke Naγur; Manchu: Huhu Noor) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. ... Gansu (Simplified Chinese: 甘肃; Traditional Chinese: 甘肅; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the Peoples Republic of China. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: SzÅ­4-chuan1; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in the central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... Yunan redirects here. ...

Following Soviet practice, there is a convention that the governor of the TAR is an ethnic Tibetan from the TAR, while the general secretary of the local Communist Party committee is an outsider, usually Han Chinese. Notable general secretaries of the TAR Party committee include Hu Jintao, who served in the 1980s. CCCP redirects here. ... A Tibetan pilgrim The Tibetans speak the Tibetan language natively and form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), although in anthropological terms they include more than one ethnic group. ... Language(s) Chinese languages Religion(s) Predominantly Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, traditional Chinese religions, and atheism. ... This is a Chinese name; the family name is Hu Hu Jintao (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born December 21, 1942) is currently the Paramount Leader of the Peoples Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the...

PRC police in front of Potala Palace in Lhasa.

In 1950, the Chinese Army claimed the Tibetan area of Chamdo, crushing minimal resistance. In 1951, the Tibetan representatives, under PLA military pressure, signed a seventeen-point agreement with the PRC's Central People's Government affirming China's sovereignty over Tibet. The agreement was ratified in Lhasa a few months later.^[1][2]. Government forces clashed with CIA-supported ethnic dissidents in 1959 during the celebration of the Tibetan New Year, after which the 14th Dalai Lama, with CIA help, went into political exile in India. After 1959, the CIA trained Tibetan guerrillas and provided funds for the fight against China. However, the effort stopped when Richard Nixon decided to seek rapprochement with China in the early 1970s. Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, in The CIA's Secret War in Tibet ^[3], reveal how the CIA encouraged Tibet's revolt against China - and eventually came to control its fledgling resistance movement. The New York Times reported on October 2, 1998 that the Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the CIA, but denied reports that the Tibetan leader benefited personally from an annual subsidy of $180,000. The money allocated for the resistance movement was spent on training volunteers and paying for guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the Tibetan government-in-exile said.. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 392 KB) Tibet and Chinese police. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 392 KB) Tibet and Chinese police. ... For the Chinese civilization, see China. ... For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation). ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Two modern armies have been known in English as the Chinese Army: Republic of China Army Peoples Liberation Army For Chinese armies before 1912, see: military history of China This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Qamdo (Tibetan:ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་(Chab-mdo), Mandarin Chinese:昌都(ChāngdÅ«)) is a county in Tibet. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་; Wylie: lo gsar) is the Tibetan word for new year. ... (Redirected from 14th Dalai Lama) Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Nixon redirects here. ... James Morrison is a name shared by many people. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...

Geography

The TAR is located on the Tibetan Plateau, the highest region on Earth. In northern Tibet elevations reach an average of over 4,572 metres. Most of the Himalaya mountain range lies within Xizang; Mount Everest lies on Xizang's border with Nepal. Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and Sichuan Province of China lie on the Tibetan Plateau. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... For the movie Himalaya, see Himalaya (film). ... Everest redirects here. ...

Xinjiang, Qinghai and Sichuan lie to the north and east of the TAR; India and Kashmir to the west; and Yunnan, Nepal, India and Bhutan to the south. For the county in Shanxi province, see Xinjiang County. ... Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai; Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་ mtsho-sngon; Mongolian: Köke Naγur; Manchu: Huhu Noor) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: SzÅ­4-chuan1; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in the central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... Kashmir (or Cashmere) may refer to: Kashmir region, the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent India, Kashmir conflict, the territorial dispute between India, Pakistan, and the China over the Kashmir region. ... Yunan redirects here. ...

Administrative divisions

Tibet Autonomous Region is divided into one prefecture-level city (Lhasa) and six prefectures (Nagqu, Qamdo, Nyinchi, Shannan, Xigazê and Ngari prefectures). These in turn are subdivided into a total of seventy-one counties, one district (Chengguan District, Lhasa) and one county-level city (Xigazê). A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: dìjí shì, literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in Chinas administrative structure. ... For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation). ... Prefecture, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... Nagqu prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Nagchu Prefecture (Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: nag-chu sa khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: NàqÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Qamdo prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Qamdo Prefecture (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: chab-mdo sa khul; simplified Chinese: 昌都地区; pinyin: ChāngdÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Nyinchi Prefecture (Chinese:林曲县) is a prefecture in Southwestern Tibetan Autonomous Region in Western China. ... Shannan prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Shannan Prefecture (Tibetan: ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: lho kha sa khul; simplified Chinese: 山南地区; pinyin: Shānnán DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Wylie transliteration: Gzhis-ka-rtse; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtsa; pinyin (Tibetan): Xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé, Zhigatse [Zhi-ga-tse], and Xigatse) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of 县 (xiàn). ... District, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha sa; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... A county-level city (县级市 Pinyin: xiànjí shì) is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. ... Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Wylie transliteration: Gzhis-ka-rtse; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtsa; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé; also Xigazê, Zhigatse [Zhi-ga-tse], and Xigatse) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ...

See List of administrative divisions of Tibet Autonomous Region for a complete list of county-level divisions. Tibet Autonomous Region, an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, is made up of the following three levels of administrative division: 7 prefecture-level divisions 1 prefecture-level city 6 prefectures 73 county-level divisions 1 county-level city 71 counties 1 district 692 township-level divisions... In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of 县 (xiàn). ...

Lhasa Prefecture Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x960, 314 KB) Description: Maps of Tibet Autonomous Region of China Source: Date: On October 10 2005 Author: Photo taken by Fanghong Permission: Other versions of this file: File links The following pages link to this file: Lhasa ... Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha sa; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...	Nagqu Prefecture Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 512 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 960 pixel, file size: 302 KB, MIME type: image/png) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Nagqu prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Nagchu Prefecture (Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: nag-chu sa khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: NàqÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ...	Nyinchi Prefecture Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 512 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 960 pixel, file size: 311 KB, MIME type: image/png) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Nyinchi Prefecture (Chinese:林曲县) is a prefecture in Southwestern Tibetan Autonomous Region in Western China. ...	Ngari Prefecture Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 512 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 960 pixel, file size: 304 KB, MIME type: image/png) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...
Qamdo Prefecture Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 512 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 960 pixel, file size: 296 KB, MIME type: image/png) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Qamdo prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Qamdo Prefecture (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: chab-mdo sa khul; simplified Chinese: 昌都地区; pinyin: ChāngdÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ...	Xigazê Prefecture Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 512 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 960 pixel, file size: 306 KB, MIME type: image/png) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Wylie transliteration: Gzhis-ka-rtse; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtsa; pinyin (Tibetan): Xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé, Zhigatse [Zhi-ga-tse], and Xigatse) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ...

Demographics

The TAR has the lowest population density among China's province-level administrative regions, mostly due to its mountainous and harsh geographical features.

As of 2000, 92.8% of the population are ethnic Tibetans, who mainly adhere to Tibetan Buddhism and Bön. Han Chinese, who are recent immigrants from other parts of the People's Republic of China, comprise 6.1% of the population [2]. This article is in need of attention. ... The Tibetan people are a people indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the West to Myanmar and China in the East. ... Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ... Bön[1] (Tibetan: བོན་; Wylie: bon; Lhasa dialect IPA: [) is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. ... Language(s) Chinese languages Religion(s) Predominantly Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, traditional Chinese religions, and atheism. ...

Smaller tribal groups such as the Monpa and Lhoba, who follow a combination of Tibetan Buddhism and spirit worship, are found mainly in the southeastern parts of the region. The Monpa (Chinese: 门巴族, ménbàzú, Tibetan: མོན་པ།) are an ethnic group of Tibetan descent in the Indian territory of Arunachal Pradesh, with a population of 50,000, centered in the districts of Tawang and West Kameng. ... Languages Lhoba, Tibetan Religions Animism Tibetan Buddhist (primarily in Tibet) An entry was temporarily removed here. ... Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ...

Towns and villages in Tibet

Lhasa

Further information: List of towns and villages in the Tibet Autonomous Region

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation). ... A comprehensive A-Z List of cities, towns and villages in the Tibet Autonomous Region of western China // Alamdo Arza Asog Baga Bagar Baicang Baidi Baima Baimai Baixoi Bamda Banag Banbar Banggaidoi Bangkor Bangru Bangxing Baqen Bar Barga Bari Bayizhen Beba Bebar Benqungdo Bilung Birba Biru Bogkamba Boindoi Bolo Bongba...

Economy

Main article: Economy of Tibet

The Tibetans traditionally depended upon agriculture for survival. Since the 1980s, however, other jobs such as taxi-driving and hotel retail work have become available in the wake of Chinese economic reform. In 2006, Tibet's nominal GDP topped 29 billion yuan (US$3.8 billion), more than double the 11.78 billion yuan (US$1.47 billion) in 2000. In the past five years, Tibet's annual GDP growth has averaged 12%. The Tibetan yak was an integral part of Tibetan life. ... Economic reforms have triggered internal migrations within China. ...

While traditional agricultural work and animal husbandry continue to lead the area's economy, in 2005 the tertiary sector contributed more than half its GDP growth, the first time it has surpassed the area's primary industry [3] [4]. The re-opening of the Nathu La pass (on southern Tibet's border with India) should facilitate Sino-Indian border trade and boost Tibet's economy [5]. The tertiary sector of industry, also called the service sector or the service industry, is one of the three main industrial categories of a developed economy, the others being the secondary industry (manufacturing and primary goods production such as agriculture), and primary industry (extraction such as mining and fishing). ... Nathu La   (Nepali: नाथू ला, IAST: NāthÅ« Lā; Tibetan: རྣ་ཐོས་ལ་) is a mountain pass in the Himalayas. ...

In 2005, the Chinese state news vehicle reported that the per capita disposable incomes of urban and rural residents in Tibet averaged 8,411 yuan (US$1,051) and 2,075 yuan (US$259) respectively. These figures were an increase of 30.4% and 55.9% over those of 2000 [6]. Per capita is a Latin phrase meaning for each head. ... For the album by punk rock band, Snuff, see Disposable Income (album) Disposable income is the total amount of income an individual makes after direct taxes. ...

The China Western Development policy has recently been adopted by central government to boost economic development in western China, including the TAR. China Western Development (西部大开发 Pinyin: Xībù Dàkāifā), also Chinas Western Development or Western China Development, is a policy adopted by the Peoples Republic of China to boost its underdeveloped western regions. ...

Tourism

Tourists were first permitted to visit the TAR in the 1980s. While the main attraction is the Potala Palace in Lhasa, there are many other popular tourist destinations including Jokhang Temple, Namtso Lake, and Tashilhunpo Monastery. The Potala Palace (Tibetan: པོ་ཏ་ལ།) located in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in Peoples Republic of China. ... For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation). ... The Jokhang Temple, home of the most venerated statue in Tibet a golden roof cylinder The Jokhang, also called the Jokhang Temple or the Jokhang Monastery, is a famous Buddhist temple in Lhasa, Tibet. ... Tashi Dor monastery overlooking the lake Pastoral nomads camping near Namtso (2005) Namtso (officially: Nam Co; Mongolian: Tengri Nor; “Heavenly Lake”; ) is a mountain lake at the border between Damxung County of Lhasa Prefecture and Baingoin County of Nagqu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, approximately 112 km... Tashilhunpo Monastery The Thanka Wall overlooking the monastery Tashilhunpo Monastery, built in 1447, is a historic and culturally important monestary in Shigatse, Tibet. ...

Footnotes

Further reading

• Sorrel Wilby, Journey Across Tibet: A Young Woman's 1900-Mile Trek Across the Rooftop of the World, Contemporary Books (1988), hardcover, 236 pages, ISBN 0-8092-4608-2.

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For PRC rule and policies in Tibet

• Tibet Autonomous Region official website
• China, Tibet and the Chinese nation
• China Tibet Information Center
• Chinese government white paper "Tibet -- Its Ownership And Human Rights Situation" (1992)
• Chinese government white paper, "Tibet's March Toward Modernization" (2001)
• (Chinese) Naming of Tibet
• PRC Government Tibet information
• Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet (May 2004)
• (Chinese) Tibet Online
• Tibet Tour (Tibet Tourism Bureau Official Site)
• (Chinese) Tibet University
• White Paper on Ecological Improvement and Environmental Protection in Tibet
• White Paper on Tibetan Culture and Homayk

Against PRC rule and/or policies in Tibet

• Amnesty International Report 2004
• The Government of Tibet in exile
• Is Tibet Really Part of China?
• Olympic Watch (Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games in a Free and Democratic Country) on Tibet-related issues.
• Repression in Tibet
• [7]
• Students for a Free Tibet
• CIA Intervention in Tibet - photos and information on Tibet (and Nepal)
• American Support for Tibetan Resistance

Apolitical

• Large map of Tibet
• Haiwei Trails - Timeline of Tibet
• The Tibet Map Institute
• Railway map of China

v • d • e Tibetan autonomous areas in the People's Republic of China
Tibet Autonomous Region	Lhasa · Nagqu · Qamdo · Shannan · Xigazê · Ngari · Nyingchi
Gansu Province	Gannan · Tianzhu
Qinghai Province	Haibei · Hainan · Haixi (Mongols and Tibetans) · Huangnan · Golog · Yushu
Sichuan Province	Garzê · Ngawa (Tibetans and Qiang) · Muli
Yunnan Province	Dêqên
See also Political divisions of China

v • d • e Province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China
Provinces	Anhui · Fujian · Gansu · Guangdong · Guizhou · Hainan · Hebei · Heilongjiang · Henan · Hubei · Hunan · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Jilin · Liaoning · Qinghai · Shaanxi · Shandong · Shanxi · Sichuan · Taiwan1 · Yunnan · Zhejiang
Autonomous regions	Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet · Xinjiang
Municipalities	Beijing · Chongqing · Shanghai · Tianjin
Special administrative regions	Hong Kong · Macau
1 Taiwan is claimed by the PRC but administered by the Republic of China.

Coordinates: 31°42′20″N, 86°56′25″E Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: dìjí shì, literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in Chinas administrative structure. ... For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation). ... Prefecture, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... Nagqu prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Nagchu Prefecture (Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: nag-chu sa khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: NàqÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Nyingchi Prefecture (Tibetan: ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: nying-khri sa khul; simplified Chinese: 林芝地区; pinyin: LínzhÄ« DìqÅ«) is a prefecture in southwestern Tibetan Autonomous Region in western China. ... Qamdo prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Qamdo Prefecture (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: chab-mdo sa khul; simplified Chinese: 昌都地区; pinyin: ChāngdÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Shannan prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Shannan Prefecture (Tibetan: ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: lho kha sa khul; simplified Chinese: 山南地区; pinyin: Shānnán DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Wylie transliteration: Gzhis-ka-rtse; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtsa; pinyin (Tibetan): Xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé, Zhigatse [Zhi-ga-tse], and Xigatse) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ... Tibet Autonomous Region, an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, is made up of the following three levels of administrative division: 7 prefecture-level divisions 1 prefecture-level city 6 prefectures 73 county-level divisions 1 county-level city 71 counties 1 district 692 township-level divisions... The Tibetan people are a people indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the West to Myanmar and China in the East. ... In a similar fashion to the former Soviet Unions titular nations, a number of areas associated with one or more ethnic minorities are designated as autonomous within the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation). ... Nagqu prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Nagchu Prefecture (Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: nag-chu sa khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: NàqÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Qamdo prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Qamdo Prefecture (Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: chab-mdo sa khul; simplified Chinese: 昌都地区; pinyin: ChāngdÅ« DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Shannan prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region Shannan Prefecture (Tibetan: ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: lho kha sa khul; simplified Chinese: 山南地区; pinyin: Shānnán DìqÅ«) List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions Categories: | ... Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Wylie transliteration: Gzhis-ka-rtse; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtsa; pinyin (Tibetan): Xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé, Zhigatse [Zhi-ga-tse], and Xigatse) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Nyingchi Prefecture (Tibetan: ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: nying-khri sa khul; simplified Chinese: 林芝地区; pinyin: LínzhÄ« DìqÅ«) is a prefecture in southwestern Tibetan Autonomous Region in western China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Gansu (Simplified Chinese: 甘肃; Traditional Chinese: 甘肅; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Simplified Chinese: 甘南藏族自治州; Pinyin: Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: -དཀར་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Dkar-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China. ... Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County (天祝藏族自治县 Tiānzhù Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn) is in the prefecture-level city of Wuwei in the Chinese province of Gansu. ... Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai; Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་ mtsho-sngon; Mongolian: Köke Naγur; Manchu: Huhu Noor) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. ... location of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Qinghai Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 海北藏族自治州; pinyin: HÇŽibÄ›i Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: མཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Mtsho-byang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province in China. ... location of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Qinghai Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 海南藏族自治州; pinyin: HÇŽinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Mtsho-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province in China. ... Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 海西蒙古族藏族自治州; pinyin: HÇŽixÄ« MÄ›nggÇ”zú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Mtsho-nub Sog-rigs dang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture in Qinghai. ... For other uses, see Mongols (disambiguation). ... location of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Qinghai Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 黄南藏族自治州; pinyin: HÇŽinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Rma-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province in China. ... location of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Qinghai Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 果洛藏族自治州; pinyin: GuÇ’luò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Mgo-log Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province in China. ... Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 玉树藏族自治州; pinyin: Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Yul-shul Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is an autonomous prefecture in Qinghai. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: SzÅ­4-chuan1; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in the central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... Garze Tibetan Autonomous Region (Chinese: 甘孜藏族自治州; pinyin: GānzÄ« Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu, Tibetan - དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Dkar-mdzes bod-rigs rang-skyong khul) is an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan whose capital is Kangding County. ... The Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie transliteration: rnga ba bod rigs dang chang rigs rang skyong khul; Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; Pinyin: Ä€bà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu) is an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan whose capital is Barkam. ... The Qiang people (羌族; Pinyin: qiāng zú) are an ethnic group. ... Muli Tibetan Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 木里藏族自治县; pinyin: Mùlǐ Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn) Muli Tibetan autonomous county lies in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the province of Sichuan. ... Yunan redirects here. ... Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 迪庆藏族自治州; Pinyin: Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan - བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Bde-chen Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul) is an autonomous prefecture in Yunnan. ... Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... A province, in the context of China, is a translation of Sheng (Chinese: 省 ShÄ›ng), which is an administrative division of China. ... Anhui (Chinese: 安徽; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: An-hui; Postal System Pinyin: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal map spelling: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan Hok-kiàn) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Gansu (Simplified Chinese: 甘肃; Traditional Chinese: 甘肅; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Not to be confused with the former Kwantung Leased Territory in north-eastern China. ... (Simplified Chinese: 贵州; Traditional Chinese: è²´å·ž; pinyin: Gùizhōu; Wade-Giles: Kuei-chou; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Hebei (Chinese: 河北; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ho-pei; Postal System Pinyin: Hopeh) is a northern province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Heilongjiang (Simplified Chinese: 黑龙江省; Traditional Chinese: 黑龍江省; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Postal System Pinyin: Heilungkiang) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. ... Henan (Chinese: 河南; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ho-nan), is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. ... Hubei (Chinese: 湖北; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hu-pei; Postal System Pinyin: Hupeh) is a central province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan, Henan, and Yunnan. ...   (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang-hsi; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the Peoples Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south. ... For the city, see Jilin City. ...   (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Liáoníng) is a northeastern province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai; Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་ mtsho-sngon; Mongolian: Köke Naγur; Manchu: Huhu Noor) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. ...   (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ShÇŽnxÄ«; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a north-central province of the Peoples Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the...   (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ... Shanxi (Chinese: 山西; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Shansi) is a province in the northern part of the Peoples Republic of China. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: SzÅ­4-chuan1; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in the central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... Yunan redirects here. ... Zhejiang (also spelled Chehkiang or Chekiang) is an eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... The autonomous regions of China are the largest type of autonomous area in China. ... Guangxi (Zhuang: Gvangjsih; old orthography: ; Simplified Chinese: 广西; Traditional Chinese: 廣西; Pinyin: GuÇŽngxÄ«; Wade-Giles: Kuang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangsi), full name Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Zhuang: Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih; old orthography: ; Simplified Chinese: 广西壮族自治区; Traditional Chinese: 廣西壯族自治區; Pinyin: GuÇŽngxÄ« Zhuàngzú ZìzhìqÅ«) is a Zhuang autonomous region of... Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠦᠷ ᠮᠣᠨᠺᠤᠯᠤᠨ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠺᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠣᠷᠤᠨ r Mongghul-un bertegen Jasaqu Orun; Chinese: 内蒙古自治区; Hanyu Pinyin: N... Ningxia (Simplified Chinese: 宁夏; Traditional Chinese: 寧夏; Pinyin: Níngxià; Wade-Giles: Ning-hsia; Postal Pinyin: Ningsia), full name Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Simplified Chinese: 宁夏回族自治区; Traditional Chinese: 寧夏回族自治區; Pinyin: Níngxià Huízú ZìzhìqÅ«), is a Hui autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, located on the northwest Loess... For the county in Shanxi province, see Xinjiang County. ... Direct-controlled municipalities are the highest-level cities in China, with status equal to that of the provinces. ... Peking redirects here. ... Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Postal map spelling: Chungching, also Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the Peoples Republic of Chinas four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China. ... For other uses, see Shanghai (disambiguation). ...   (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of the four municipalities of China. ... A Special administrative region (SAR) is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... For the Chinese civilization, see China. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...