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Tibet

Tibet

Tibet, Xizang or Hsi-tsang is a region in the western part of , covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the homeland of the Tibetans. Other ethnic groups also reside on the plateau, including Mongols, the Monpa, the Tamang, the Qiang, the Sherpa, the Lhoba, and since the 20th century, the Han and the Hui.
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  • Type: Region with 3,000,000 residents
  • Description: plateau region in west China
  • Also known as: “Greater Tibet”, “Tangut”, “Thebet”, “Thibet”, “Tibetan cultural zone”, “Tibetan Highland”, “Tibetan Plateau”, “Tibetan Tableland”, “Tobat”, “Tubet”, and “Xīzàng”

Tibet

Latitude
33.21112° or 33° 12′ 40″ north
Longitude
86.13281° or 86° 7′ 58″ east
Population
3,000,000
Elevation
5,313 metres (17,431 feet)
Open location code
8M58646M+C4
Geo­Names ID
8449601
Wiki­data ID
Q17252
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Tibet” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tibet”
  • Albanian: “Tibet”
  • Albanian: “Tibeti”
  • Amharic: “ቲቤት”
  • Arabic: “التبت”
  • Arabic: “التيبت”
  • Arabic: “تبت”
  • Arabic: “تيبت”
  • Aragonese: “Tibet”
  • Armenian: “Տիբեթ”
  • Asturian: “Tíbet”
  • Awadhi: “तिब्बत”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tibet”
  • Balinese: “Tibét”
  • Basque: “Tibet”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбет”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбэт”
  • Bengali: “তিব্বত”
  • Bhojpuri: “तिब्बत”
  • Bosnian: “Tibet”
  • Brahui: “Tibbat”
  • Breton: “Tibet”
  • Bulgarian: “Тибет”
  • Burmese: “တိဗက်”
  • Catalan: “Tibet”
  • Central Bikol: “Tibet”
  • Central Kurdish: “تبت”
  • Chechen: “Тибет”
  • Chinese: “Se-chōng”
  • Chinese: “吐蕃”
  • Chinese: “圖博”
  • Chinese: “藏”
  • Chinese: “藏区”
  • Chinese: “藏區”
  • Chinese: “西藏”
  • Chuvash: “Тибет”
  • Croatian: “Tibet”
  • Czech: “Tibet”
  • Danish: “Tibet”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tibet”
  • Dutch: “Tibet”
  • Dzongkha: “བོད”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “التبت”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيبيت”
  • Esperanto: “Tibeto”
  • Estonian: “Tiibet”
  • Faroese: “Tibet”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tibet”
  • Finnish: “Tiibet”
  • French: “le Thibet”
  • French: “le Tibet”
  • French: “Tangut”
  • French: “Thibet”
  • French: “Tibet”
  • French: “Tubet”
  • Galician: “Tíbet”
  • Georgian: “ტიბეტი”
  • German: “Tibet”
  • Gorontalo: “Tibet”
  • Greek: “Θιβέτ”
  • Gujarati: “તિબેટ”
  • Gujarati: “તિબ્બત”
  • Haitian: “Tibet”
  • Hawaiian: “Kipeka”
  • Hebrew: “טיבט”
  • Hindi: “तिब्बत”
  • Hungarian: “Tibet”
  • Ido: “Tibet”
  • Iloko: “Tibet”
  • Indonesian: “Dataran Tinggi Tibet”
  • Indonesian: “Tibet”
  • Interlingua: “Tibet”
  • Interlingue: “Tibet”
  • Irish: “an Tibéid”
  • Irish: “An Tibéid”
  • Italian: “Thibet”
  • Italian: “Tibet”
  • Japanese: “チベット”
  • Javanese: “Tibet”
  • Kabiyè: “Tibɛtii”
  • Kalmyk: “Төвд”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಬೆಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tibet”
  • Kashmiri: “تِبت”
  • Kashmiri: “تِبَت”
  • Kazakh: “Тибет”
  • Khmer: “ទីបេ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tibeti”
  • Kirghiz: “Тибет”
  • Korean: “티베트”
  • Kurdish: “Tîbet”
  • Lao: “ຕີເບດ”
  • Latin: “Thibetum”
  • Latin: “Tibetum”
  • Latvian: “Tibeta”
  • Ligurian: “Tibet”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tibet”
  • Literary Chinese: “西藏”
  • Lithuanian: “Tibetas”
  • Lojban: “tibet”
  • Macedonian: “Тибет”
  • Magahi: “तिब्बत”
  • Maithili: “तिब्बत”
  • Malagasy: “Tibet”
  • Malagasy: “Tibeta”
  • Malay: “Tibet”
  • Malayalam: “തിബെത്ത്”
  • Marathi: “तिबेट”
  • Mazanderani: “تبت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Câung-kṳ̆”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤-câung”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Se-chōng”
  • Mingrelian: “ტიბეტი”
  • Mongolian: “Төвөд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تيبيت”
  • Nepali: “तिब्बत”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tiibet”
  • Northern Sami: “Tibet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tibet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tibet”
  • Norwegian: “Tibet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tibet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tibèt”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tibet”
  • Oriya: “ତିବତ”
  • Oriya: “ତିବ୍ବତ”
  • Ossetian: “Тибет”
  • Pampanga: “Tibet”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿੱਬਤ”
  • Persian: “تبت”
  • Piemontese: “Tìbet”
  • Polish: “Tybet”
  • Portuguese: “Tibet”
  • Portuguese: “Tibete”
  • Pushto: “تبت”
  • Quechua: “Tibet”
  • Romanian: “Tibet”
  • Romansh: “Tibet”
  • Russia Buriat: “Түбэд”
  • Russian: “Тибет”
  • Rusyn: “Тібет”
  • Samogitian: “Tėbets”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱤᱵᱵᱚᱛ”
  • Sardinian: “Tibet”
  • Scots: “Tibet”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tibet”
  • Serbian: “Тибет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tibet”
  • Sicilian: “Tibet”
  • Sindhi: “تبت”
  • Sinhala: “ටිබෙට්”
  • Slovak: “Tibet”
  • Slovenian: “Tibet”
  • Somali: “Tibet”
  • Spanish: “Thibet”
  • Spanish: “Tibet”
  • Spanish: “Tíbet”
  • Swahili: “Tibet”
  • Swedish: “Tibet”
  • Swiss German: “Tibet”
  • Tagalog: “Tibet”
  • Talysh: “Tibet”
  • Tamil: “திபெத்”
  • Tamil: “திபெத்து”
  • Tatar: “Тибет”
  • Telugu: “టిబెట్”
  • Thai: “ทิเบต”
  • Tibetan: “Böd”
  • Tibetan: “བོད་”
  • Tibetan: “བོད་ཡུལ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tibet”
  • Turkish: “Tibet”
  • Tuvinian: “Төвүт”
  • Ukrainian: “Тибет”
  • Urdu: “تبت”
  • Venetian: “Tìbet”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Tạng”
  • Võro: “Tiibet”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tibet”
  • Welsh: “Tibet”
  • Western Frisian: “Tibet”
  • Wu Chinese: “藏区”
  • Yakut: “Тибиэт”
  • Yoruba: “Tibet”
  • Yue Chinese: “圖博”
  • Zeeuws: “Tibet”
  • “Tėbets”
  • “Tiibet”
  • “तिब्बत”

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