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Tibet; Snow Lion Flag: Use: National flag: Proportion: 5:8: Adopted: 1916; 108 years ago (): Design: Two snow lions beneath a flaming blue, white and orange jewel and holding a blue and orange taijitu on a white mountain with a gold sun rising over it, all over 12 red and blue alternating rays with a gold border around the upper, lower, and hoist side of the flag.
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 .
A topographic map of Tibet. Geography of Tibet. Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Central Asia; South Asia; East Asia; Time zone: China Standard Time ; Extreme points of Tibet High: Mount Everest 8,848 m (29,029 ft) – highest point on Earth; Low: Yarlung Tsangpo 1,615 m (5,299 ft) Demographics of Tibet ...
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 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi). It is the homeland of the Tibetan people.
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
The Emblem of Tibet is a symbol of the Tibetan government in exile. It combines several elements of the flag of Tibet , with slightly different artistry, and contains many Buddhist symbols . Its primary elements are the sun and moon above the Himalayas , which represent Tibet , often known as the Land Surrounded by Snow Mountains .
In 1947, Tibet sent a delegation to the Asian Relations Conference in New Delhi, India, where it represented itself as an independent nation, and India recognised it as an independent nation from 1947 to 1954. [64] This may have been the first appearance of the Tibetan national flag at a public gathering. [65]