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  2. Lhasa - Wikipedia

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    Lhasa, [a] officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, [b] is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. [4]Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres (11,990 ft), Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world.

  3. File:Lhasa map.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Lhasa map.svg. Add languages. ... 1=A map of the administrative boundaries of The Tibetan Autonomous Region with Lhasa Prefecture highlighted.}} ...

  4. Lhasa (city) - Wikipedia

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    Lhasa is the capital and largest city in Tibet. Founded in the A.D. 5th century and largely closed to foreigners until the early 1980s, it is a holy Buddhist city dominated by Potala Palace, the former home of the Dalai Lama, and full of prayer wheels and prayer flags (colorful pieces of rag are tied on to strings).

  5. Tibet - Wikipedia

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    Tibet (/ t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t / ⓘ; Tibetan: བོད, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøːʔ˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 藏区; pinyin: Zàngqū), or Greater Tibet, [1] is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 470,000 sq mi (1,200,000 km 2). [2] It is the homeland of the Tibetan people.

  6. Damxung County - Wikipedia

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    Damxung is a county of Lhasa City, lying to the north of its main center of Chengguan, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its administrative seat is Damquka . The terrain is rugged, including the western Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains , with their highest peak rising to 7,111 metres (23,330 ft).

  7. Ü (region) - Wikipedia

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    Map of Tibet Ü-Tsang Amdo and Kham Ü ( Tibetan : དབུས་ , Wylie : dbus , ZYPY : Wü , Lhasa dialect : [wyː˨˧˩] ) 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 ...

  8. The Lhasa Atlas - Wikipedia

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    The topic of Tibetan architecture is covered in the first chapter. The architecture of Lhasa is the subject of the second chapter. The third chapter focuses on significant historical buildings in Lhasa that were constructed before 1950. The final chapter discusses the preservation of Lhasa as well as its potential in the future. [2]

  9. Lhasa Gonggar Airport - Wikipedia

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    Lhasa Gonggar Airport (IATA: LXA, ICAO: ZULS) is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.It is about 97 kilometres (60 mi) to Lhasa and about 62 kilometres (39 mi) southwest of the city in Gyazhugling, Gonggar County of Shannan.