Tibet Autonomous Region


བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་'''
Pö Rangyongjong
西藏自治区
'Xīzàng Zìzhìqū
Abbreviation: 藏 (pinyin: Zàng)
Tibet Autonomous Region is highlighted on this map
Origin of Name 西 xī - west
藏 zàng - Tibetan
"Tibet in the west"
Administration Type Autonomous region
Capital and
Largest City 		Lhasa
CPC Tibet Committee Secretary Yang Chuantang
Chairman Jampa Phuntsok
Area 1,228,400 km² (2nd)
Population (2002)
 - Density 		2,670,000 (31st)
2.2/km² (31st)
GDP (2002)
 - per capita 		16.1 billion ¥ (31st)
6046 ¥ (22nd)
Major Nationalities (2000) Tibetan - 93%
Han - 6%
Hui - 0.3%
Monpa - 0.3%
Prefecture-level divisions 7
County-level divisions 73
Township-level divisions 692
ISO 3166-2 CN-54
The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་, Pö Rangyongjong; Chinese: 西藏自治区, Xīzàng Zìzhìqū), is a province-level administrative subdivision of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Within the PRC the TAR is identified with Tibet, a characterization hotly disputed by many Tibetan exile groups, particularly the Government of Tibet in Exile, which define the terms "Tibet" or "historic Tibet" to include not just the TAR, but also the traditional province of Amdo, today encorporated in Qinghai province and southwestern of Gansu province, and the traditional province of Kham (eastern half), today in western Sichuan province and northwestern Yunnan province. The TAR includes about half of historic Tibet, including the traditional provinces of U-Tsang and Kham (western half). Its borders coincide roughly with the actual zone of control of the government of Tibet before 1959.

History

See History of Tibet for the history of the area before 1959. Before 1959, the present extent of the TAR, comprising U-Tsang and western Kham, was governed by the government of Tibet headed by the Dalai Lama, which the Government of Tibet in Exile characterizes as a sovereign independent nation, and the governments of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China as a self-governing Region within China. Other parts of historic Tibet (eastern Kham and Amdo) were not under the administration of the Tibetan government during the 20th century; today they are distributed among the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Following Soviet practice, there is a convention that the governor of the TAR is an ethnic Tibetan from the TAR while the general secretary of the local Communist Party committee is an outsider, usually Han Chinese. Notable general secretaries of the TAR Party committee include Hu Jintao who served in the 1980s. See also:

Geography

The TAR is located on the Tibetan Plateau, the highest region on Earth. Most of the Himalaya mountain range lies within Xizang; Mount Everest is on Xizang's border with Nepal. The TAR is bounded on the north and east by Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Sichuan, on the west by Kashmir and on the south by Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. TAR also borders on Bhutan, Sikkim, India, and Pakistan. Map of the Tibet Autonomous Region

Administrative divisions

Tibet Autonomous Region is divided into 1 prefecture-level city (Lhasa) and 6 prefectures (Nagqu Prefecture, Qamdo Prefecture, Nyinchi Prefecture, Shannan Prefecture, Xigazê Prefecture, Ngari Prefecture). All of these are in turn divided into 1 district (Chengguan District, Lhasa), 1 county-level city (Xigazê), and 71 counties.

Demographics

The TAR has the lowest population density among all of the province-level administrative regions in China, mainly due to its mountainous and harsh geographical features. Most of the population comprises of the ethnic Tibetans, who mainly adhere to Tibetan Buddhism and Bön. A sizeable population comprises of the Han Chinese, who are recent immigrants from other parts of China. Intrmarriages between the Han Chinese and Tibetans do exist, although it proved to be unpopular. Smaller tribal groups such as the Monpa and Lhoba, who follow a combination of Lamaism and spirit worship, is found mainly in the southeastern parts of the region.

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For "Historic Tibet", see Tibet. The location of this article does not imply any official position by Wikipedia on whether "Tibet" corresponds to Historic Tibet or Tibet Autonomous Region. ja:西蔵自治区 et:Tiibeti autonoomne piirkond fi:Tiibetin autonominen alue zh:西藏自治区
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