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Tholing (Tibetan: མཐོ་ལྡིང་, Wylie: mtho lding, literally "high place";Chinese: 托林; pinyin: Tuōlín), [a] also called Zanda (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ, Wylie: rtsa mda, THL: tsa da), [b] is a town and the seat of Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, in the west of Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.
Physically, Tibet may be divided into two parts, the "lake region" in the west and north-west and the "river region", which spreads out on three sides of the former on the east, south, and west. [4] The region names are useful in contrasting their hydrological structures, and also in contrasting their different cultural uses which is nomadic in ...
The Third Pole, also known as the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan system (HKKH), is a mountainous region located in the west and south of the Tibetan Plateau.Part of High-Mountain Asia, it spreads over an area of more than 4.2 million square kilometres (1.6 million square miles) across nine countries, i.e. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Tajikistan ...
Topography of the region with Mount Kailash in the background and Manasarovar (right) and Rakshastal lakes in the foreground. Mount Kailash is located in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. [8] [9] It lies in the Gangdisê Mountains (also called as Kailash Range) of the Transhimalaya, in the western part of the Tibetan Plateau ...
Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 m (14,000 ft). [3] [4] Located in the Himalayas, the highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain, rising 8,848 m (29,000 ft) above sea level. [5] The Tibetan Empire emerged in the 7th century.
Thok Jalung was one of many goldfields that stretched from Lhasa into western Tibet, north of the Tsangpo River watershed. [5] Situated on the Changtang , 16,330 feet (4,980 m) above sea level, [ 6 ] Thok Jalung was the highest altitude goldfield in the world [ 7 ] and at the time was believed to be the highest altitude in the world inhabited ...
It is the highest peak in the 180 km long Namcha Barwa Himal range (also called the Namjagbarwa syntaxis or Namjagbarwa Group Complex), which is considered the easternmost syntaxis/section of the Himalaya in southeastern Tibet and northeastern India where the Himalaya are said to end, although high ranges (Hengduan Mountains on the China ...
The mountain stands on the China–Nepal border, between the Tibet Autonomous Region and Koshi Province. Just a few kilometres west of Cho Oyu is Nangpa La (5,716m/18,753 ft), a glaciated pass that serves as the main trading route between the Tibetans and the Khumbu's Sherpas. This pass separates the Khumbu and Rolwaling Himalayas.