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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Tsaparang (Tibetan: རྩ་བྲང, Wylie: rtsa-brang [1]) was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge in the Garuda Valley, through which the upper Sutlej River flows, in Ngari Prefecture (Western Tibet) near the border of Ladakh.
Kawa Karpo is one of the most sacred mountains for Tibetan Buddhism as the spiritual home of a warrior god of the same name. [3] [5] [6] It is visited by 20,000 pilgrims each year from throughout the Tibetan world; [7] many pilgrims circumambulate the peak, an arduous 240 km (150 mi) trek [6] Although it is important throughout Tibetan Buddhism, it is the local Tibetans that are the day-to-day ...