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Tibet

The flag is the flag of Tibet before 1959^[1].

	བོད་ 西藏

བོད་ཡིག	བོད་ - བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་^[2] བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་ བོད་ཨ་མདོ་ནི་མདོ་སྨད་སྒང་དྲུག་སྟེ། ད་ལྟའི་མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་གྱི་ཁོངས་དང་། ཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན། སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་གྱི་ཁོངས་ཀྱི་བོད་པ་སྤྱི་ལ་གོ་དགོས།
中文	西藏 - 西藏自治区^[3] 西藏（藏文བོད，拉丁文转写为Bod，在现代拉萨方言的发音为pö），古称吐蕃，現在一些流亡海外的藏人指吐蕃及西藏均含有貶義，建議改名為“圖博”）是位于东亚的一个区域，位于青藏高原之上。比邻尼泊尔、不丹及印度等地。现为中华人民共和国的一个自治区。
English	Tibet - Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet is a plateau region in Central Asia and the indigeneous home to the Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 m (16,000 ft), it is the highest region on Earth and is commonly referred to as the "Roof of the World". Existing as a separate nation for centuries, Tibet is today administered mostly under the People's Republic of ► China. Tibet is also officially claimed by the Republic of China (Taiwan). However in the Tibetan sovereignty debate, the Chinese government and the Government of Tibet in Exile have disagreed over the legitimacy of Tibet becoming a part of China since 1959, and whether this incorporation into the Chinese homelands was legitimate. Tibet borders ► Xinjiang, ► Kashmir, ► India, ► Nepal and ► Bhutan.

Short name	Tibet
Official name	Tibet Autonomous Region
Status	Autonomous region of ► China, disputed by Tibetan government in exile
Capital	ལྷ་ས་ (Lhasa) 拉薩^[4]
Population	7,282,154 inhabitants (Greater Tibet), 2,616,329 inhabitants
Area	2.5 million resp. 1 228 400 km²
Major languages	Tibetan, Chinese
Major religions	Buddhism and Chinese folk religion
More information	Tibet, Geography of Tibet, History of Tibet and Politics of Tibet
More images	Tibet - Tibet (Category).

Map of Tibet in the Chinese administrative divisions

Map of Tibet Autonomous Region

Map of Tibet Autonomous Region

Location of Tibet Autonomous Region	Lhasa (拉萨) City, capital of the Region	Nagqu (那曲) Prefecture	Nagri (阿里) Prefecture
Nyinchi (林芝) Prefecture	Qamdo (昌都) Prefecture	Shannan (山南) Prefecture	Shigatse (日喀则) Prefecture
Overview of Tibet and surrounding Tibetan areas.	Map highlighting Lhasa Prefecture	Map highlighting Nagqu Prefecture	Map highlighting Ngari Prefecture
Map highlighting Nyinci Prefecture	Map highlighting Qamdo Prefecture	Map highlighting Shannan Prefecture	Map highlighting Shigatse Prefecture
a version for use as a locator map

Ethnolinguistic Map of Tibet 1967

Historic Tibet

Satellite map of Tibet

Historic Tibet as claimed by Tibetan exile groups

Tibetan areas designated by the PRC

Tibet Autonomous Region (actual control)

Claimed by India as part of Aksai Chin

Claimed by PRC as part of TAR

Other areas historically within Tibetan cultural sphere

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↑ Goldstein, Sherap, Siebenschuh "A Tibetan revolutionary: the political life and times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye", p175. After the 1959 Tibetan uprising the Chinese government outlawed the flag as a symbol of separatism. It continues to be used by the Government of Tibet in Exile
↑ Romanization of Tibetan: Bod - Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs.
↑ Romanization according to the Hanyu Pinyin standard: Xīzàng - Xīzàng Zìzhìqū.
↑ Romanization according to the Hanyu Pinyin standard: Lāsà.