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  2. List of towns in Tibet by elevation - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetan Plateau is a plateau in southern Central Asia. It is the highest plateau in the world, with an average elevation of 4,500 meters and covering an area of roughly 2.5 million square kilometres.

  3. Tibetan Plateau - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetan Plateau's mean elevation continued to vary since its initial uplift in the Eocene; isotopic records show the plateau's altitude was around 3,000 metres above sea level around the Oligocene-Miocene boundary and that it fell by 900 metres between 25.5 and 21.6 million years ago, attributable to tectonic unroofing from east–west ...

  4. Tibet Autonomous Region - Wikipedia

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    Highest elevation (Mount Everest) 8,848 m (29,029 ft) Population ... The Tibet Autonomous Region is located on the Tibetan Plateau, the highest region on Earth. In ...

  5. Outline of Tibet - Wikipedia

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    Tibet is a plateau region in Asia and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft), it is the highest region on Earth and is commonly referred to as the "Roof of the World."

  6. Geography of Tibet - Wikipedia

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    Yamdrok Lake. 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.

  7. File:Topografic map of Tibetan Plateau.png - Wikipedia

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  8. Changtang - Wikipedia

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    The Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary (or the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary) is a high altitude wildlife sanctuary located in the Ladakhi adjunct of the Changtang plateau in the Leh District, Ladakh. It is important as one of the few places in India with a population of the kiang or Tibetan wild ass, as well as the rare black-necked crane.

  9. High-mountain Asia - Wikipedia

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    High-mountain Asia (HMA) is a high-elevation [1] geographic region in central-south Asia that includes numerous cordillera and highland systems around the Tibetan Plateau, encompassing regions of East, Southeast, South and Central Asia.