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Yamdrok Lake. The geography of Tibet consists of the high mountains, lakes and rivers lying between Central, East and South Asia.Traditionally, Western (European and American) sources have regarded Tibet as being in Central Asia, though today's maps show a trend toward considering all of modern China, including Tibet, to be part of East Asia.
Ü (Tibetan: དབུས་, Wylie: dbus, ZYPY: Wü, Lhasa dialect: ) is a geographic division and a historical region in Tibet. Together with Tsang ( གཙང་ , gtsang ), it forms Central Tibet Ü-Tsang ( དབུས་གཙང་ , dbus gtsang ), which is one of the three Tibetan regions or cholka ( cholka-sum ).
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft), it is the highest region on Earth and is commonly referred to as the "Roof of the World." A unified Tibet first came into being under Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century.
The music of Tibet reflects the cultural heritage of the trans-Himalayan region, centered in Tibet but also known wherever ethnic Tibetan groups are found in India, Bhutan, Nepal and further abroad. First and foremost Tibetan music is religious music , reflecting the profound influence of Tibetan Buddhism on the culture.
The Tibetan Plateau, [a] also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau [b] and Qing–Zang Plateau, [c] is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia. [d]. Geographically, it is located to the north of Himalayas and the Indian subcontinent, and to the south of Tarim Basin and Mongolian Plateau.
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It considered Tibet be part of the "Five Races under One Union" [8] and held that "Tibet was placed under the sovereignty of China" following the Sino-Nepalese War (1788–1792). [10] The Nationalist government 's Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) was established in 1928 to nominally govern those regions. [ 11 ]
Second, it is neither reduced to the confines of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China nor to Tibetan-speaking populations in adjacent Chinese territories (that is, in addition to TAR, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan), but includes areas and sites in northwestern India, northern China, Mongolia, and Beijing. Third ...