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The South Tibet Valley is formed by the Yarlung Zangbo River during its middle reaches, where it travels from west to east. The valley is approximately 1200 kilometers long and 300 kilometers wide. The valley descends from 4500 meters above sea level to 2800 meters. The mountains on either side of the valley are usually around 5000 meters high.
The traditional centers of power in Tibet, such as the Yarlung Valley, Lhasa and Nêdong County, are located in Ü. In the 15th century, the Gelug lineage gained great influence in Ü, while Tsang to the west tended to adhere to the rival Karma Kagyu school. The Gelug-Karma rivalry overlapped with the political rivalry between the leaders of Ü ...
Tibet is divided administratively into the Tibet Autonomous Region and parts of the Qinghai, Gansu, Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. Tibet is also constitutionally claimed by the Republic of China as the Tibet Area since 1912. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 m (14,000 ft).
Map of the region around Rima (labelled as Li-ma 力馬).The two branch rivers Rongto Chhu and Zayul Chhu join here before entering India. (US AMS, 1954)Zayul County is located in an area of highly varying topography, lying just south of the Tibetan Plateau in the mountainous region east of the Himalayas where the Transhimalayas transition to the Hengduan Mountains.
Gonggar County is located in southern Tibet and has a total area of 2,283 square kilometres (881 sq mi). The Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra River), the mother river of Tibet, flows through the Gonggar County and among other counties of Shannan, and is thus rich in water resources. Set in west to east direction, the county is a plateau land ...
Southern Tibet [1] [2] [3] is a literal translation of the Chinese term "藏南" (pinyin: Zàng Nán), which may refer to different geographic areas: . The southern part of Tibet, covering the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Valley between Saga County to the west and Mainling County to the east, as well as neighbouring areas located between the Himalayas to the south and the ...
A satellite image of Tibet/Xizang Political map; Tibet Autonomous Region within China. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tibet: . Tibet is a plateau region in Asia and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people.
The region is about 1,500 km long and 250 km wide, stretching from the Yarlung Tsangpo river valley in Tibet in the southwest, to the Qilian Mountains of Gansu Province in the northeast. The strip of land forms a high plain over 4,000 meters in elevation. The plateau is inclined slightly from northwest to southeast. [1]