Tibet Autonomous Region, the Glossary

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1. 256 relations: Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China, Administrative divisions of China, Agriculture, Alkali, Amdo, Amnesty International, Animism, Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, Arunachal Pradesh, Asian Survey, Autonomous regions of China, Ü-Tsang, Bai people, Battle of Chamdo, Bayi District, Bhutan, Birgit Zotz, Bon, Bonan people, Borax, Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement, 1993, Brahmaputra River, British expedition to Tibet, Buddhism, Bulang people, Cadre system of the Chinese Communist Party, Catholic Church, Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (1949–1954), Central Tibetan Administration, Chamdo, Changtang, China, China Daily, China Tibetology Research Center, China Western Development, China–Nepal railway, Chinese Civil War, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, Chinese economic reform, Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720), Chinese folk religion, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Christianity, Christians, Compulsory sterilization, Confucianism, Confucius, Counties of China, County-level city, ... Expand index (206 more) »

2. 1965 establishments in China
3. Autonomous regions of China
4. Tibetan Plateau
5. Tibetan autonomous areas
6. Western China

Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China

The administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China identify the administrative divisions of China at county level and above.

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Administrative divisions of China

The administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times, due to China's large population and geographical area.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Alkali

In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.

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Amdo

Amdo is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Ü-Tsang in central Tibet, and Kham in the east. Tibet Autonomous Region and Amdo are Tibet.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Animism

Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China

Tibet came under the control of People's Republic of China (PRC) after the Government of Tibet signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which the 14th Dalai Lama ratified on 24 October 1951, but later repudiated on the grounds that he had rendered his approval for the agreement under duress.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India. Tibet Autonomous Region and Arunachal Pradesh are Tibet.

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Asian Survey

Asian Survey: A Bimonthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs is a bimonthly academic journal of Asian studies published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Autonomous regions of China

The autonomous regions are one of four types of province-level divisions of China.

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Ü-Tsang

Ü-Tsang (དབུས་གཙང་། Wylie; dbus gtsang) is one of the three Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the north-east, and Kham in the east.

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Bai people

The Bai, or Pai (Bai: Baipho, (白和);; endonym pronounced), are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, Bijie area of Guizhou Province, and Sangzhi area of Hunan Province.

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Battle of Chamdo

The Battle of Chamdo (or Qamdo) occurred from 6 to 24 October 1950.

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Bayi District

Bayi or Chagyib District (巴宜区 or), formerly Nyingchi County, is a District of Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Bhutan

Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.

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Birgit Zotz

Birgit Zotz (born 7 August 1979) is an Austrian writer, cultural anthropologist and an expert on the subject of hospitality management studies.

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Bon

Bon or Bön, also known as Yungdrung Bon, is the indigenous Tibetan religion which shares many similarities and influences with Tibetan Buddhism.

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Bonan people

The Bonan people (p) are a distinct ethno-linguistic group from all other Mongolic peoples, living in Gansu and Qinghai provinces in Northwestern China.

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Borax

Borax (also referred to as sodium borate, tincal and tincar) is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated or anhydrous borate of sodium, with the chemical formula (also written as). It is a colorless crystalline solid that dissolves in water to make a basic solution.

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Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement, 1993

The Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement (BPTA or MPTA; formally the Agreement on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquility along the Line of Actual Control in the India–China Border Areas) is an agreement signed by China and India in September 1993, agreeing to maintain the status quo on their mutual border pending an eventual boundary settlement.

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Brahmaputra River

The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet (China), Northeastern India, and Bangladesh.

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British expedition to Tibet

The British expedition to Tibet, also known as the Younghusband expedition, began in December 1903 and lasted until September 1904.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Bulang people

The Bulang people (also spelled Blang) are an ethnic group.

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Cadre system of the Chinese Communist Party

The cadre system of the Chinese Communist Party entails the methods and institutions employed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to train, organize, appoint, and oversee personnel to fulfill a wide range of civil service-type roles in Party, state, military, business, and other organizations across the country.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (1949–1954)

During the first five years of the People's Republic of China (1949 to 1954), the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China served as supreme organ for exercising state power when the National People's Congress was not in session, as determined by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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Central Tibetan Administration

The Central Tibetan Administration. Tibet Autonomous Region and Central Tibetan Administration are Tibet.

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Chamdo

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

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Changtang

The Changtang (alternatively spelled Changthang or Qangtang) is a part of the high altitude Tibetan Plateau in western and northern Tibet extending into the southern edges of Xinjiang as well as southeastern Ladakh, India, with vast highlands and giant lakes. Tibet Autonomous Region and Changtang are Tibetan Plateau.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China Daily

China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

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China Tibetology Research Center

The China Tibetology Research Center (Tibetan: ཀྲུང་གོའི་བོད་རིག་པ་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ལྟེ་གནས།; Wylie: Krung go'i bod rig pa zhib 'jug ste gnas) is an academic research organization in Beijing, China devoted to the study of Tibet (Tibetology).

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China Western Development

China Western Development is an economic policy applied in Western China as part of the effort to reduce imbalances in development between China's coastal regions and its interior.

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China–Nepal railway

The China–Nepal Railway (中尼铁路; चीन-नेपाल रेलवे) is a planned railway between China and Nepal.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary

A Party Committee Secretary is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit.

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Chinese economic reform

The Chinese economic reform or Chinese economic miracle, also known domestically as reform and opening-up, refers to a variety of economic reforms termed "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of China (PRC) that began in the late 20th century, after Mao Zedong's death in 1976.

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Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720)

The 1720 Chinese expedition to Tibet or the Chinese conquest of Tibet in 1720 was a military expedition sent by the Qing dynasty to expel the invading forces of the Dzungar Khanate from Tibet and establish Qing rule over the region, which lasted until the empire's fall in 1912.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora.

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Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s united front system.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Compulsory sterilization

Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of people.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.

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Confucius

Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.

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Counties of China

Counties (hp) are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in provinces and autonomous regions and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banners and city districts.

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County-level city

A county-level municipality, county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970:; 1970–1983), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Dagzê, Lhasa

Dagzê District is a district of Lhasa immediately east of the district of Chengguan, Tibet.

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Dazecuo

Dazecuo (also known as Dagze Lake) is one of many inland lakes in Tibet.

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Disposable income

Disposable income is total personal income minus current taxes on income.

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Districts of China

The term district, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China.

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Doilungdêqên, Lhasa

Doilungdêqên District is a district in Lhasa, north-west of the main center of Chengguan, Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Drogön Chögyal Phagpa

Drogön Chogyal Phagpa (八思巴 ʼphags pa; 1235 – 15 December 1280), was the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

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Dzungar Khanate

The Dzungar Khanate, also written as the Zunghar Khanate or Junggar Khanate, was an Inner Asian khanate of Oirat Mongol origin.

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Dzungar–Qing Wars

The Dzungar–Qing Wars (Зүүнгар-Чин улсын дайн) were a decades-long series of conflicts that pitted the Dzungar Khanate against the Qing dynasty and its Mongol vassals.

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Effluent

Effluent is wastewater from sewers or industrial outfalls that flows directly into surface waters, either untreated or after being treated at a facility.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the real Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Epic of King Gesar

The Epic of King Gesar, also spelled Kesar or Geser (especially in Mongolian contexts), is an epic from Tibet and Central Asia.

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Era of Fragmentation

The Era of Fragmentation was an era of disunity in Tibetan history lasting from the death of the Tibetan Empire's last emperor, Langdarma, in 842 until Drogön Chögyal Phagpa became the Imperial Preceptor of the three regions of Tibet in 1253, under the Yuan dynasty.

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An extrajudicial killing (also known as an extrajudicial execution or an extralegal killing) is the deliberate killing of a person without the lawful authority granted by a judicial proceeding.

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Forced abortion

Forced abortion is a form of reproductive coercion that refers to the act of compelling a woman to undergo termination of a pregnancy against her will or without explicit consent.

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Ganden Phodrang

The Ganden Phodrang or Ganden Podrang was the Tibetan system of government established by the 5th Dalai Lama in 1642, when the Oirat lord Güshi Khan who founded the Khoshut Khanate conferred all spiritual and political power in Tibet to him in a ceremony in Shigatse.

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Gansu

Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China. Tibet Autonomous Region and Gansu are western China.

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Gar County

Gar County, formerly Senge Tsangpo County, is a district (county) in the Ngari Prefecture of the western Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Güshi Khan

Güshi Khan (1582 – 14 January 1655) was a Khoshut prince and founder of the Khoshut Khanate, who supplanted the Tumed descendants of Altan Khan as the main benefactor of the Dalai Lama and the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Golmud

Golmud, also known by various other romanizations, is a county-level city in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, China.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Guan Yu

Guan Yu, courtesy name Yunchang, was a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.

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Guge

Guge was an ancient dynastic kingdom in Western Tibet.

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Gyantse

Gyantse, officially Gyangzê Town (also spelled Gyangtse), is a town located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya. Tibet Autonomous Region and Himalayas are Tibetan Plateau.

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History of Bhutan

Bhutan's early history is steeped in mythology and remains obscure.

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History of Tibet (1950–present)

The history of Tibet from 1950 to the present includes the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, and the Battle of Chamdo.

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Hong Kong Trade Development Council

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is a statutory body established in 1966 as the international marketing dedicated to creating opportunities for Hong Kong's businesses.

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Hot spring

A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.

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Hu Yaobang

Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China.

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Hui people

The Hui people (回族|p.

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Hukou

Hukou is a system of household registration used in mainland China.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Hydrology

Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and management of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources, and drainage basin sustainability.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Jokhang

The Jokhang, or the Ra sa 'phrul snang gtsug lag khang, or Qoikang Monastery, or Zuglagkang, (or Tsuklakang), is considered the "heart of Lhasa".

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Karub, Qamdo

Karub District also known as Kharro or Karuo, is a district in Qamdo, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo.

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Kashag

The Kashag was the governing council of Tibet during the rule of the Qing dynasty and post-Qing period until the 1950s.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.

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Kazara

Kazara are the descendants of mixed Nepali-Tibetan marriage.

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Kham

Kham is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, while Ü-Tsang in central Tibet and Ngari in western Tibet together form the third region. Tibet Autonomous Region and Kham are Tibet.

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Khoshut Khanate

The Khoshut Khanate was a Mongol Oirat khanate based in the Tibetan Plateau from 1642 to 1717.

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Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China.

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Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.

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Lake Manasarovar

Lake Manasarovar (Mānasarōvara), also called Mapam Yumtso locally, is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Lake Pelku

Lake Pelku, Pelkhu, or Paiku is a lake at elevation on the Tibetan Plateau in Shigatse Prefecture.

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Lake Rakshastal

Lake Rakshastal (translit-std) is a saltwater lake in Tibet Autonomous Region, China, lying just west of Lake Manasarovar and south of Mount Kailash.

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Lhasa

Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China.

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Lhasa (city)

Lhasa is a prefecture-level city, one of the main administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Lhasa Gonggar Airport

Lhasa Gonggar Airport is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.

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Lhasa Teachers College

Lhasa Teachers College (拉萨师范高等专科学校), also known as Lhasa Normal College, is a teacher training institution in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of the People's Republic of China, located at No.

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Lhasa Tibetan

Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.

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Lhasa–Shigatse railway

The Lhasa–Shigatse railway, or Lari railway (lha gzhis lcags lam ལྷ་གཞིས་ལྕགས་ལམ་), is a high-elevation railway that connects Lhasa to Shigatse (Xigazê), in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Lhoba people

Lhoba (English translation:;; ལྷོ་པ།) is any of a diverse amalgamation of Sino-Tibetan-speaking tribespeople living in and around Pemako, a region in southeastern Tibet including Mainling, Medog and Zayü counties of Nyingchi and Lhünzê County of Shannan, Tibet.

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Lifan Yuan

The Lifan Yuan (Mongolian: Гадаад Монголын төрийг засахявдлын яам, γadaγadu mongγul un törü-yi jasaqu yabudal-un yamun) was an agency in the government of the Qing dynasty of China which administered the empire's Inner Asian territories such as Mongolia and oversaw the appointments of Ambans in Tibet.

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Line of Actual Control

The Line of Actual Control (LAC), in the context of the Sino-Indian border dispute, is a notional demarcation lineAnanth Krishnan,, 13 June 2020: "In contrast, the alignment of the LAC has never been agreed upon, and it has neither been delineated nor demarcated.

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List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan).

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List of administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Autonomous Region, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, has three administrative divisional levels – prefectural, county, and township – as enumerated in the infobox on the right.

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List of Chinese administrative divisions by area

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces (except the claimed Taiwan Province), autonomous regions, special administrative regions, and municipalities, in order of their total land area as reported by the national or provincial-level government.

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List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP

The article lists China's province-level divisions by gross domestic product (GDP).

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List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP per capita

The article is about China's first-level administrative divisions by their gross domestic product per capita in main years.

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List of Chinese administrative divisions by population

This is a list of Chinese administrative divisions in order of their total resident populations.

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List of prisons in the Tibet Autonomous Region

This is a list of prisons within Tibet Autonomous Region province of the People's Republic of China.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of universities and colleges in Tibet

The following is a list of universities and colleges in the Tibet (Xizang, 西藏) region of China.

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Lisu people

The Lisu people (Lisu: ꓡꓲ‐ꓢꓴ ꓫꓵꓽ; လီဆူလူမျိုး,;; ลีสู่) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit mountainous regions of Myanmar (Burma), southwest China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Losang Jamcan

Losang Jamcan, also spelled Losang Gyaltsen (born July 1957), is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who is currently a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Mainling

Mainling, formerly Mainling County, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Maldives

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. Tibet Autonomous Region and Maldives are states and territories established in 1965.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Maryul

Maryul, also called mar-yul of mnga'-ris, was the western most Tibetan kingdom based in modern-day Ladakh and some parts of Tibet.

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The mass media in the People's Republic of China primarily consists of television, newspapers, radio, and magazines.

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Mekong

The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Miao people

The Miao are a group of linguistically related peoples living in Southern China and Southeast Asia, who are recognized by the government of China as one of the 56 official ethnic groups.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Ministry of Civil Affairs

The Ministry of Civil Affairs (中华人民共和国民政部) the cabinet-level executive department of the State Council of China which is responsible for social and administrative affairs.

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Mongol invasions of Tibet

There were several Mongol invasions of Tibet.

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Mongols

The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.

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Monguor people

The Monguor (Monguor language: Mongghul), the Tu people, the White Mongol or the Tsagaan Mongol, are Mongolic people and one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China.

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Monpa people

The Monpa is a major tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.

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Mosuo

The Mosuo (also spelled Moso, Mosso or Musuo), often called the Naxi among themselves, are a small ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Nagqu

Nagqu (also Naqu, Nakchu, or Nagchu) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet.

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Nagqu Dagring Airport

Nagqu Dagring Airport is a planned airport that will serve Seni in the Nagqu of Tibet.

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Nakhi people

The Nakhi, Nashi or Naxi (Naxi: Naqxi) are a people inhabiting the Hengduan Mountains abutting the Eastern Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.

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Namcha Barwa

Namcha Barwa or Namchabarwa (Chinese: 南迦巴瓦峰, Pinyin: Nánjiābāwǎ Fēng) is a mountain peak lying in Tibet in the region of Pemako.

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Namtso

Namtso or Lake Nam (officially: Namco; Tenger nuur;;; “Heavenly Lake” in European literature: Tengri Nor) is a mountain lake on the border between Damxung County of Lhasa prefecture-level city and Baingoin County of Nagqu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, approximately NNW of Lhasa.

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Nathu La

Nathu La(Sikkimese: རྣ་ཐོས་ལ་) is a mountain pass in the Dongkya Range of the Himalayas between China's Yadong County in Tibet, and the Indian states of Sikkim.

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National Bureau of Statistics of China

The National Bureau of Statistics is a deputy-ministerial level agency directly under the State Council of China.

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National People's Congress

The National People's Congress (NPC) is the highest organ of state power of the People's Republic of China.

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National Taiwan University

National Taiwan University (NTU) is a national comprehensive public research university in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Nêdong (village)

Nêdong or Nêtong is a village in Nêdong County, in the Shannan Prefecture of Tibet.

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Nedong, Shannan

Nêdong District is a district of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Ngari Gunsa Airport

Ali Kunsha Airport, also called Ngari Günsa Airport,, also known as Shiquanhe Airport is a dual-use military and civil airport serving the town of Shiquanhe in Ngari Prefecture, between Gar Chongsar and Sogmai, Günsa Township, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Ngari Prefecture

Ngari Prefecture or Ali Prefecture is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Tibet Autonomous Region and Ngari Prefecture are Tibet.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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Nu people

The Nu people (alternative names include Nusu, Nung, Zauzou and Along) are one of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by the People's Republic of China.

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Nyang River

The Nyang River (also transliterated as Niyang or Nanpan) is a major river in south-west Tibet and the second largest tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River by discharge.

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Nyingchi

Nyingchi, also known as Linzhi or Nyingtri, is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China.

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Nyingchi Mainling Airport

Linzhi Milin Airport, also called Nyingchi Mainling Airport, is an airport in Mainling, Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Ophiocordyceps sinensis

Ophiocordyceps sinensis (synonym Cordyceps sinensis), known colloquially as caterpillar fungus, is an entomopathogenic fungus (a fungus that grows on insects) in the family Ophiocordycipitaceae.

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Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Yerkalo

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, commonly referred to as Catholic Church of Yerkalo or Yanjing Catholic Church, is a Catholic church building located in Yerkalo, a village between 2650 and 3109 meters above sea level at the southern end of Markham County (Chamdo, Tibet Autonomous Region) in present-day China.

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Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai

Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai (born February 1940) is the 11th Qamdo Pagbalha Hutuktu of Tibetan Buddhism and a politician of the People's Republic of China.

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Pagsum Lake

Dragsum Tsho (Pagsum Co, literally meaning “three rocks” in Tibetan, is a lake covering 28 square kilometres in Gongbo'gyamda County, Nyingchi of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, approximately east of Lhasa. At 3,700 metres over sea level it is about 18 km long and has an average width of approximately.

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Pangong Tso

Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (translit-std) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of.

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People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Government is the provincial administrative agency of Tibet, People 's Republic of China. Tibet Autonomous Region and People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region are 1965 establishments in China.

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People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.

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Permafrost

Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Population transfer

Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority.

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Potala Palace

The Potala Palace is a ''dzong'' fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China.

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Potash

Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

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Prefecture-level city

A prefecture-level city or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.

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Prefecture-level divisions of China

China is officially divided into 339 prefecture-level divisions, which rank below provinces and above counties as the second-level administrative division in the country.

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Prefectures of China

Prefectures are one of four types of prefecture-level divisions in China, the second-level administrative division in the country.

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Prisoner of conscience

A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views.

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Proclamation of the People's Republic of China

The proclamation of the People's Republic of China was made by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

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Provinces of China

Provinces (p) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Puma Yumco

Puma Yumco is a lake located at above mean sea level on the southern Tibetan Plateau, and is situated within Nagarzê County of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Pumi people

The Pumi (also Primi or Premi) people (Tibetan: བོད་མི་, Wylie: bod mi,, autonym) are an ethnic group.

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Qamdo Bamda Airport

Changdu Bangda Airport, also known as Qamdo Bamda Airport, is an airport serving Qamdo (Changdu), Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Qiang people

The Qiang people (Qiangic: Rrmea) are an ethnic group in China.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Qinghai

Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest. Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai are Tibetan Plateau and western China.

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Qinghai–Tibet railway

The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway (མཚོ་བོད་ལྕགས་ལམ།, mtsho bod lcags lam), is a high-elevation railway line in China between Xining, Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, Tibet.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.

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Renminbi

The renminbi (symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as Chinese Yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Sakya

The Sakya ('pale earth') school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug.

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Salar people

The Salar people are a Turkic ethnic minority in China who speak Salar, a Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Salween River

The Salween is a Southeast Asian river, about long, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau south into the Andaman Sea. The Salween flows primarily within southwest China and eastern Myanmar (Burma), with a short section forming the border of Burma and Thailand. Throughout most of its course, it runs swiftly through rugged mountain canyons.

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Samzhubzê, Xigazê

Samzhubzê District (also spelled Sangzhuzi District, Samdruptse District) is a district in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the China, and the administrative center of the prefecture-level city of Shigatse (Tibetan Pinyin: Xigazê).

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.

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Seni, Nagqu

Seni District is a district within the Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Seventeen Point Agreement

The Seventeen-Point Agreement, officially the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, was an agreement between the Tibetan Government and the People's Republic of China.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Shannan, Tibet

ShannanThe official spelling according to, also known as Lhoka, is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Shigatse

Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê, or Rikaze, is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

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Shigatse Peace Airport

Rikaze (Shigatse) Peace Airport, Shigatse Heping Airport, or Shigatse Air Base, is a dual-use military and civilian airport serving Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Shigatse Photovoltaic Power Plant

The Shigatse Photovoltaic Power Plant is a solar power plant located 3 km northwest of Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet, China.

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Sichuan

Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south. Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan are western China.

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Sichuan–Tibet railway

The Sichuan–Tibet railway, Sichuan–Xizang railway or Chuanzang railway is a high-elevation and the National first-class trunk railway in China that will connect Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, and Lhasa, the capital of Xizang Autonomous Region, when fully completed.

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Simplified Chinese characters

Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.

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Sinicization of Tibet

The sinicization of Tibet includes the programs and laws of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to force cultural assimilation in Tibetan areas of China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region and the surrounding Tibetan-designated autonomous areas. Tibet Autonomous Region and sinicization of Tibet are Tibet.

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Sino-Indian border dispute

The Sino–Indian border dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute over the sovereignty of two relatively large, and several smaller, separated pieces of territory between China and India.

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Sodium carbonate

Sodium carbonate (also known as washing soda, soda ash and soda crystals) is the inorganic compound with the formula and its various hydrates.

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Southwestern China

Southwestern China is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China. Tibet Autonomous Region and Southwestern China are western China.

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.

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State Council Information Office

The State Council Information Office (SCIO) is the chief information office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and an external name of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Tanggula Pass

The Tanggu La, Tangla Pass, or Tanggu Pass (གདང་ལ) is a wide mountain pass in Southwest China over in elevation, used by both the Qinghai–Tibet Highway and Qinghai–Tibet Railway to cross the Tanggula Mountains. Tibet Autonomous Region and Tanggula Pass are Tibetan Plateau.

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Tashi Lhunpo Monastery

Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet.

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Terrorism

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Tibet (1912–1951)

Tibet was a de facto independent state in East Asia that lasted from the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912 until its annexation by the People's Republic of China in 1951.

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Tibet Area (administrative division)

The Tibet Area was a province-level administrative division of China in the 20th century.

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Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress

The People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region is the local people's congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress are 1965 establishments in China.

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Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

The Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, also called the Xizang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the regional committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Tibet under Qing rule

Tibet under Qing rule refers to the Qing dynasty's rule over Tibet from 1720 to 1912.

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Tibet University

Tibet University (UTibet) is a regional public university in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.

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Tibetan Empire

The Tibetan Empire was an empire centered on the Tibetan Plateau, formed as a result of imperial expansion under the Yarlung dynasty heralded by its 33rd king, Songtsen Gampo, in the 7th century.

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Tibetan independence movement

The Tibetan independence movement (Bod rang btsan; s) is the political movement advocating for the reversal of the 1950 annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, and the separation and independence of Greater Tibet from China.

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Tibetan Muslims

Tibetan Muslims, also known as the Khache, are Tibetans who adhere to Islam.

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Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan people are Tibet.

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Tibetan pinyin

Pö yig Kigajor--> The SASM/GNC/SRC romanization of Standard Tibetan, commonly known as Tibetan pinyin or ZWPY (拼音|p.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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Tibetan script

The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from of Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti.

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Tibetan sovereignty debate

The Tibetan sovereignty debate refers to two political debates.

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Tibetic languages

The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries,Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Tingri County

Tingri County is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Torture

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.

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Tsona

Tsona City, formerly Tsona County, is a county-level city in Shannan Prefecture in southern part of the Tibet region of China.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Wang Junzheng

Wang Junzheng (born 17 May 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving Communist Party Secretary of Tibet since 18 October 2021.

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Warlord Era

The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions from 1916 to 1928.

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Wylie transliteration

Wylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter.

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Xikang

Xikang (formerly romanized as Sikang or Hsikang, or 'Kham to the west ') was a nominal province formed by the Republic of China in 1939 on the initiative of prominent Sichuan warlord Liu Wenhui and retained by the early People's Republic of China. Tibet Autonomous Region and Xikang are Tibet.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Tibet Autonomous Region and Xinjiang are autonomous regions of China and western China.

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Xizang Minzu University

Xizang Minzu University, also known as Tibet University for Nationalities, is a Chinese university established to educate ethnic minorities, specifically Tibetans.

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Yamdrok Lake

Yamdrok Lake (also known as Yamdrok Yumtso or Yamzho Yumco) is a freshwater lake in Tibet.

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Yan Jinhai

Yan Jinhai (born March 1962) is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who is the current deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Tibet Committee and chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, in office since 8 October 2021.

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Yangtze

Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.

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Yarlung dynasty

The Yarlung dynasty, or Pre-Imperial Tibet, was a proto-historical dynasty in Tibet before the rise of the historical Tibetan Empire in the 7th century.

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Yarlung Tsangpo

The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo and Yalu Zangbu River is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, also known as the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, the Tsangpo Canyon, the Brahmaputra Canyon or the Tsangpo Gorge ('), is a canyon along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Yellow River

The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.

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Yi people

The Yi or Nuosu people (Nuosu: ꆈꌠ,; see also § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in southern China.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China. Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan are western China.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Tenzin Gyatso;; born 6 July 1935) is, as the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism.

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1959 Tibetan uprising

The 1959 Tibetan uprising (also known by other names) began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951.

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5th Dalai Lama

Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617–1682) was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet.

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See also

1965 establishments in China

• Anshun Huangguoshu Airport
• China Academy of Aerospace Electronics Technology
• Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
• Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Hubei University of Medicine
• Lycée Français International Charles de Gaulle de Pékin
• Nanwan Monkey Island
• Panzhihua Iron and Steel
• People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region
• Shenzhen Reservoir
• Tibet Autonomous Region
• Tibet Autonomous Region Guesthouse
• Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress
• Unbong Dam

Autonomous regions of China

• Autonomous regions of China
• Guangxi
• Inner Mongolia
• Ningxia
• Tibet Autonomous Region
• Xinjiang
• Yunfu

Tibetan Plateau

• Baishiya Karst Cave
• Bayan Har block
• Changtang
• Cherko la
• Gangdise Shan
• Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
• Himalayas
• International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
• Kunlun Fault
• Kunlun Mountains
• Kunlun Volcanic Group
• Lake Hala
• Mayum La
• Nwya Devu
• Qinghai
• Semo La
• Sheosar Lake
• Tanggula Pass
• Taniantaweng Mountains
• Thitarodes shambalaensis
• Tibet Autonomous Region
• Tibetan Plateau

Tibetan autonomous areas

• Tibet Autonomous Region

Western China

• Bogeda Biosphere Reserve
• Chongqing
• Gansu
• Guizhou
• Ningxia
• Northwestern China
• Qinghai
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Southwestern China
• Tibet
• Tibet Autonomous Region
• Western China
• Western Theater Command
• Xinjiang
• Xinjiang Province, Republic of China
• Yunnan

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region

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