Xizang

Examples

• All

• There are five autonomous provinces: Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Xizang, Guangxi, and Ningxia, as well as autonomous counties and prefectures in other provinces.

  Academic text (1992)

• The least-integrated areas are probably the interiors of provinces such as Qinghai, Xizang, Yunnan, and Gansu.

  Academic text (1992)

• Resentment and rebellions followed in Xizang in 1959 and in Xinjiang in 1962.

  Academic text (1992)

• The extreme cold and arid conditions in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and northern China are unfavorable to the development of species (Figure 1).

  Academic text (2008)

• Xizang is now the only autonomous region without a railroad linking it to the core of Inner China.

• There are five autonomous provinces: Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Xizang, Guangxi, and Ningxia, as well as autonomous counties and prefectures in other provinces.

• The least-integrated areas are probably the interiors of provinces such as Qinghai, Xizang, Yunnan, and Gansu.

Synonyms

T

Tibet

vsXizang

121 4.7

A region in China high in the Himalayas known for Buddhist culture and high flat land

is the official autonomous region name rather than the short common name

T

Tibet Autonomous Region

vsXizang

5.6

A region in southwest China in the Himalayas with its own local government and distinct culture

is the same territory but also called by its local name

T

Thibet

vsXizang

• Archaic

9.3

An older spelling of Tibet, the high mountain region in China

is the modern official name rather than the older spelling

Surface Forms

Etymology