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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 .
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.
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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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Craig Lovell/GettyEurope’s discovery of Tibet was enmeshed with missionary intent: it was Franciscan monks who brought Europe many of the first descriptions of the country. In 1245 Giovanni da ...
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
The re-opening of the Nathu La pass (on southern Tibet's border with India) should facilitate Sino-Indian border trade and boost Tibet's economy. [ 83 ] The China Western Development policy was adopted in 2000 by the central government to boost economic development in western China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region.