Ü-Tsang en · PROPN
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang).
Meanings
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One of the three traditional regions of Tibet covering a land area largely corresponding to most of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
"In the Kongpo area of U-Tsang alone, more than 20,000 Chinese soldiers and Tibetan prisoners are involved in tree felling and transport," says the report.
[1992 June 9, “Tibetan Neighbors Note Ecological 'Degradation'”, in Daily Report: China, number 111, sourced from Hong Kong South China Morning Post p 21 and Tibet Environment and Development Issues 1992, Office of the Dalai Lama, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:The Tibetan plateau — the geographic and cultural region associated with Tibet — has traditionally been divided into four historical regions. Three are almost entirely in China: Amdo in the north, now associated mostly with Qinghai and Gansu provinces in China, Kham in the east, split between Sichuan province and TAR, and Ü-Tsang, or central Tibet, the region is generally identified with the idea of Tibet, both culturally and administratively, although parts of Ü-Tsang extend to northern Nepal and the Indian states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
2020 July 11, Akhilesh Pillalamarri, “History of Tibet-Ladakh Relations and Their Modern Implications”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2020:The Northern Plain (U-Tsang) The Northern Plain is the largest region of the country. This vast area called the Changthang, covers a large portion of the country. To the extreme north is a cold, desolate desert quarter neighboring on the Chinese-Turkestan border that is mostly uninhabited. The western part of this region, which borders on Ladakh, supports a small number of nomads who live off the scant vegetation. In the 1950s, U-Tsang was sectioned off by the Chinese and named the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) (See photo, pg. 37).
[1998, Robert Z. Apte, Andrés R. Edwards, “The Geography of the Land of Snows”, in Tibet: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land, 1st edition, Heartsfire Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:The government-in-exile calls Tibet “Cholka-sum”, meaning “The Three Provinces”. These historic areas are U-Tsang, which roughly corresponds to the TAR, Amdo centred around Qinghai Province, and Kham centred around Sichuan in China’s southwest.
[2008 March 21, “Who are the Tibetans, what is Tibet?”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022, Global Coverage 2:
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Translations (7)
bo དབུས་གཙང (province) · pt Uçangue (province) · ja ウー・ツァン (province) · pl Ü-Tsang (province) · cmn 烏思藏 /乌思藏 (province) · cmn 衛藏 /卫藏 (province) · cmn 烏斯藏 /乌斯藏 (province)