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Tibet

Tibet, officially known as Xizang Autonomous Region, is sometimes described as the "roof of the world"; the entire region is on a high plateau and there are many large mountains.
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is the capital of the Tibet autonomous region in . It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the .

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is a prefecture level city in southwestern Tibet. is different from the rest of Tibet. It has a humid climate, rich vegetation and many virgin forests. Some people call it the " of Tibet".

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is a prefecture-level city in northern Tibet and the largest prefecture-level city in China by land area. In addition to being a transit station for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, it also has many unknown beauties.

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, also Shigatse, is a prefecture in Central Tibet. Named after its capital city , it has numerous places of interest for tourists, and has good public transportation by Tibetan standards.

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Prefecture is the prefecture where the capital of Tibet resides. You don't need a travel permit to visit anyplace in the prefecture.

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, also known as Lhoka, is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China. includes within its jurisdiction with , Gonggar Dzong, and Gonggar Airport all located near Gonggar town.

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Chamdo, officially and also known in Chinese as Changdu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town of in Karuo District.

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prefecture is in the far west of Tibet. It is located in the northern Tibetan Plateau and has the most unique natural scenery in Tibet. It is also one of the areas with the lowest population density.
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Tibet

Latitude of center
29.8556° or 29° 51′ 20″ north
Longitude of center
90.875° or 90° 52′ 30″ east
Population
2,870,000
Elevation
3,650 metres (11,975 feet)
Abbreviation
“藏”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3804891449
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1279685
Wiki­data ID
Q17269
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Tibet” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tibèt”
  • Afrikaans: “Outonome Gewes Tibet”
  • Afrikaans: “Tibet”
  • Albanian: “Rajoni Autonom i Tibetit”
  • Albanian: “Tibet”
  • Arabic: “منطقة التبت ذاتية الحكم”
  • Armenian: “Տիբեթի ինքնավար շրջան”
  • Assamese: “তিব্বত স্বায়ত্তশাসিত অঞ্চল”
  • Asturian: “Rexón Autónoma del Tíbet”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tibet muxtar rayonu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tibet Muxtar Vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tibet”
  • Basque: “Tibeteko eskualde autonomoa”
  • Bavarian: “Tibet”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбет”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбецкі аўтаномны раён”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбэт”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбэцкі аўтаномны раён”
  • Bengali: “তিব্বত স্বায়ত্তশাসিত অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “তিব্বত”
  • Bengali: “শিৎসাং স্বায়ত্তশাসিত অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “শিৎসাং”
  • Bosnian: “Tibet”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Emren Tibet”
  • Bulgarian: “Тибетски автономен регион”
  • Catalan: “Regió Autònoma del Tibet”
  • Catalan: “Tibet”
  • Cebuano: “Tibet Autonomous Region”
  • Central Bikol: “Awtonomong Rehiyon kan Tibet”
  • Central Bikol: “Tibet”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی خۆبەڕێوەبەریی تبت”
  • Chinese: “Se-chōng Chū-tī-khu”
  • Chinese: “吐蕃”
  • Chinese: “唐古特”
  • Chinese: “图博”
  • Chinese: “藏”
  • Chinese: “衛藏”
  • Chinese: “西藏”
  • Chinese: “西藏自治区”
  • Chinese: “西藏自治區”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tibet Muhtar Bölgesi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tibet Muhtar Rayonı”
  • Croatian: “Autonomna regija Tibet”
  • Croatian: “Tibet”
  • Czech: “Tibet”
  • Czech: “Tibetská autonomní oblast”
  • Danish: “Autonom Region Tibet”
  • Dutch: “Tibet”
  • Dutch: “Tibetaanse Autonome Regio”
  • Dzongkha: “བོད།”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Regiono Tibeto”
  • Esperanto: “Tibeta Aŭtonoma Regiono”
  • Esperanto: “Tibeto”
  • Estonian: “Tiibeti autonoomne piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Tiibet”
  • Finnish: “Tiibetin autonominen alue”
  • French: “le Thibet”
  • French: “le Tibet”
  • French: “le Xizang”
  • French: “région autonome du Tibet”
  • French: “Région autonome du Tibet”
  • French: “région autonome du Xizang”
  • French: “Thibet”
  • French: “Tibet”
  • French: “Xizang”
  • Galician: “Rexión Autónoma do Tíbet”
  • Galician: “Tibet”
  • Galician: “Tíbet”
  • Gan Chinese: “西藏”
  • Gan Chinese: “西藏自治区”
  • Georgian: “ტიბეტის ავტონომიური რეგიონი”
  • German: “Autonomes Gebiet Tibet”
  • German: “Tibet”
  • Greek: “Αυτόνομη Περιφέρεια του Θιβέτ”
  • Greek: “Θιβέτ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sî-chhòng Chhṳ-chhṳ-khî”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sî-tshông Tshṳ-tshṳ-khî”
  • Hebrew: “המחוז האוטונומי הטיבטי”
  • Hebrew: “טיבט”
  • Hindi: “तिब्बत स्वायत्त क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “बोड स्वायत्त क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Tibet”
  • Hungarian: “Tibeti Autonóm Terület”
  • Hungarian: “Xizang”
  • Icelandic: “Tíbet”
  • Ido: “Regiono autonoma Xizang”
  • Inari Sami: “Tiibet autonomisâš kuávlu”
  • Inari Sami: “Tiibet”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Otonom Tibet”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Otonomi Tibet”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Otonomi Xizang”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Tibet”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Xizang”
  • Indonesian: “Tibet”
  • Interlingua: “Xizang”
  • Irish: “an Tibéid”
  • Italian: “regione autonoma del Tibet”
  • Italian: “Regione Autonoma del Tibet”
  • Italian: “Tibet”
  • Italian: “Xīzàng”
  • Japanese: “チベット自治区”
  • Japanese: “西蔵”
  • Japanese: “西蔵自治区”
  • Japanese: “西藏自治区”
  • Kashmiri: “تِبَت خۄد مۄختیار علاقہٕ”
  • Kashubian: “Tibet”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់ស្វយ័តទីបេ”
  • Kirghiz: “Тибет автономиялуу району”
  • Kongo: “Xizang”
  • Korean: “티베트 자치구”
  • Kurdish: “Herêma Otonom a Tîbetê”
  • Kurdish: “Tîbet”
  • Latvian: “Tibetas autonomais reģions”
  • Literary Chinese: “西藏”
  • Lithuanian: “Tibeto autonominis regionas”
  • Lombard: “Region autonoma del Tibet”
  • Lombard: “Tibet”
  • Macedonian: “Тибет”
  • Malagasy: “Faritra Mizaka Tenan‘ i Tibet”
  • Malagasy: “Faritra Mizaka Tenan’ i Tibet”
  • Malay: “Kawasan Autonomi Tibet”
  • Malayalam: “തിബെത്ത് സ്വയംഭരണപ്രദേശം”
  • Manchu: “ᠸᠠᡵᡤᡳ ᡩᡯᠠᠩ”
  • Manx: “Ard Hene-reiltagh Tibet”
  • Manx: “Tibet”
  • Marathi: “तिबेट स्वायत्त प्रदेश”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤-câung”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Se-chōng Chū-tī-khu”
  • Mingrelian: “ტიბეტიშ ავტონომიური რეგიონი”
  • Mongolian: “Төвөдийн өөртөө засах орон”
  • Mongolian: “ᠲᠢᠪᠧᠲ”
  • Nepali: “तिब्बत स्वायत्त क्षेत्र”
  • Newari: “सँदेय्”
  • Northern Frisian: “Autonoom Regiuun Tiibet”
  • Northern Sami: “Tibehta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den autonome region Tibet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tibet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den autonome regionen Tibet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tibet”
  • Norwegian: “Den autonome region Tibet”
  • Norwegian: “Den autonome regionen Tibet”
  • Norwegian: “Tibet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region autonòma de Tibet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region autonòma du Tibet”
  • Oriya: “ତିବ୍ବତ”
  • Ossetian: “Тибеты автономон район”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿੱਬਤ ਖ਼ੁਦਮੁਖ਼ਤਿਆਰ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿੱਬਤ ਖ਼ੁਦਮੁਖ਼ਤਿਆਰ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “تبت”
  • Persian: “منطقه خودمختار تبت”
  • Polish: “Tybet”
  • Polish: “Tybetański Region Autonomiczny”
  • Portuguese: “Região Autónoma do Tibete”
  • Portuguese: “Região Autônoma do Tibete”
  • Portuguese: “Tibete”
  • Pushto: “تيبېت خپلواکه سيمه”
  • Quechua: “Tibet Awtunumu Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea autonomă Tibet”
  • Russia Buriat: “Түбэд”
  • Russian: “Xizang”
  • Russian: “Сицзан”
  • Russian: “ТАР”
  • Russian: “Тибет”
  • Russian: “Тибетский автономный район”
  • Scots: “Tibet Autonomous Region”
  • Serbian: “Аутономна област Тибет”
  • Serbian: “Тибет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Autonomna regija Tibet”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tibet”
  • Sindhi: “تبت خودمختيار علائقو”
  • Slovak: “Tibet”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna pokrajina Tibet”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna regija Tibet”
  • Slovenian: “Tibet”
  • Spanish: “Region Autonoma del Tibet”
  • Spanish: “Región autónoma del Tíbet”
  • Spanish: “Región Autónoma del Tíbet”
  • Spanish: “Tibet”
  • Spanish: “Tíbet”
  • Sundanese: “Tibét”
  • Swedish: “Autonoma regionen Tibet”
  • Swedish: “Tibet”
  • Tagalog: “Awtonomong Rehiyon ng Tibet”
  • Tagalog: “Nagsasariling Rehiyon ng Tibet”
  • Tajik: “Тибет (Чин)”
  • Tajik: “Тибет”
  • Tamil: “திபெத் தன்னாட்சிப் பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Тибәт айрат райуны”
  • Telugu: “టిబెట్ స్వాధికార ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “เขตปกครองตนเองทิเบต”
  • Tibetan: “Poi Ranggyong Jong”
  • Tibetan: “Poi”
  • Tibetan: “བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།”
  • Tibetan: “བོད”
  • Turkish: “Tibet Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkmen: “Tibet Awtonom Sebiti”
  • Tuvinian: “Төвүт”
  • Uighur: “شىزاڭ ئاپتونوم رايونى”
  • Ukrainian: “Тибет”
  • Ukrainian: “Тибетський автономний район”
  • Urdu: “تبت خود مختار علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tibet muxtor rayoni”
  • Venetian: “Tibet”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu tự trị Tây Tạng”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Tạng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Naglulugaring nga Rehiyon han Tibet”
  • Welsh: “Ardal hunanlywodraethol Tibet”
  • Welsh: “Rhanbarth Ymreolaethol Tibet”
  • Western Armenian: “Թիպեթ (ինքնավար շրջան)”
  • Western Panjabi: “تبت”
  • Wu Chinese: “西藏”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Aladawa Tibet”
  • Yue Chinese: “西藏”
  • Zhuang: “Sihcang Swcigih”
  • “ma Po”

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