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The Changtang Nature Reserve Map including part of the Changtang (labeled as CHANG-THANG) (DMA, 1975). Most of the Tibetan Changtang is now protected nature reserves consisting of the Chang Tang Nature Reserve, the second-largest nature reserve in the world, and four new adjoining smaller reserves totaling 496,000 square kilometres (192,000 sq mi) of connected nature reserves that represent an ...
Chang Tang National Nature Reserve (Chinese: 羌塘国家级自然保护区) lies in the northern Tibetan Plateau.It is the third-largest land nature reserve in the world, after the Northeast Greenland National Park and Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, with an area of over 334,000 km 2 (129,000 sq mi), [1] [2] making it bigger than 183 countries.
The Tibetan army withdrew after occupying Chang'an for 15 days on hearing that Tang's loyal army was marching toward the city. Tibet kingdom expanded its territory to a great extent in the reign of Thrisong Deutsen. At that time, Tibet's eastern border with Tang was near Long Mountain.
Most of the Tibetan Changtang is now protected by means of nature reserves consisting of the Chang Tang Nature Reserve, the second-largest nature reserve in the world, and four new adjoining smaller reserves totalling 496,000 km 2 (191,507 sq. miles) of connected Nature Reserves, which represents an area almost as large as Spain and bigger than ...
The lake region is an arid and wind-swept desert. This region is called the Chang Tang (Byang thang) or 'Northern Plateau' by the people of Tibet. It is some 1100 km (700 mi) broad, and covers an area about equal to that of France.
Tibetan crops must be able grow at the high altitudes, although a few areas in Tibet are low enough to grow such crops as rice, oranges, bananas, and lemon. [1] Since only a few crops grow at such high altitudes, many features of Tibetan cuisine are imported, such as tea, rice and others. The most important crop in Tibet is barley.
In 823, a stele known as the Tang-Tibet Treaty Inscription was erected in front of the main gate of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa and of which there are two other copies, one in the capital of the Tang dynasty in Chang'an at the Emperor's Gate, and the other at the Tibetan-Tang border on Mount Meru. The terms of the treaty of the alliance are ...
A map of the Min River (Minjiang) and Dadu River drainage basin.. The Peace treaty between China and Tibet of 783, also called the Sino-Tibetan Peace Treaty of 783 or Treaty of Qingshui (Chinese: 清水之盟) is a peace treaty negotiated in 783 between the Chinese Tang dynasty, ruled by Emperor Dezong and the Tibetan Empire ruled by Trisong Detsen, giving the latter all the land in the ...