Tibet
A look at Tibet
Tibet is the center of Asia, a surface 2,5 million square kilometers. The highest mountains on earth, A vast arid plateau and vast river valleys make up the physical homeland of six million Tibetans.. It has an average altitude of 13.000 pies (some 4000 A thousand meters) above sea level.
Tibet is constituted by the three provinces of Amdo (now divided by China into Qinghai provinces, Gansu y Sichuan), Kham (largely incorporated in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai Yunnanand) and U-Tsang (which together with Western Kham is the territory that China calls the Tibet Autonomous Region (RAT).
The Tibet Autonomous Region (RAT) It comprises less than half of historical Tibet and was created by China in 1965 for administrative reasons. It is important to note that when Chinese officials and publications use the term “Tibet” refer only to the Tibet Autonomous Region (RAT).
The Tibetans, however, they use the term Tibet to refer to the three provinces described above, that is to say, the area traditionally known as Tibet before the invasion 1949-50.
Specific data from Tibet
TIBET: is a term that refers to the entire territory known today as Tibet, that is to say, Cholka-Sum (comprising the regions of U-Tsang, Kham y Amdo). But it also includes the current Chinese administrative areas of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region. (RAT), Qinghai province, two Tibetan Autonomous Chiefdoms and one Tibetan Autonomous County in Sichuan Province, one Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and one Tibetan Autonomous County in Gansu Province and one Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.
Territory: 2,5 million square kilometers, which include the provinces of U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo provinces. The “Tibet Autonomous Region” It comprises the province of U-Tsang and a small part of Kham, con 1,2 million square kilometers. Most of Tibet lies outside the Tibet Autonomous Region (RAT).
Political status: Occupied country without representation in the UN (United Nations).
average altitude: 4.000 meters or 13.000 feet above sea level.
Population: under Chinese rule, Tibet is divided into the following administrative units:
a) Tibet Autonomous Region,
b) Qinghai province,
c) Tianzu Tibetan Autonomous County and Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province ,
d) Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qiang, Ganzo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Mili Autonomous County in Sichuan Province,
e) and Dechen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.
Main rivers: Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra in India), Machu (Yellow River in China), Drichu (Yangtze en China), Senge Khabab (Indo in India), Phungchu (Arun in India), Ngulchu Gyalmo (Salween in Burma) y Zachu (Mekong in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos).
Native wildlife: Native wildlife: the tibetan antelope, el yak, the Tibetan wild ass and the Tibetan wild sheep, blue sheep, the black necked crane, the tibetan gazelle, the giant panda, the red panda, the golden monkey.
Economy: Agriculture and livestock.
Literacy rate: Approximately the 25 percent.