Tibet Autonomous Region en · PROPN
Etymology
Calque from Mandarin 西藏自治區／西藏自治区 (Xīzàng Zìzhìqū).
Meanings
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An autonomous region of China, located on the Tibetan Plateau and part of Tibet, the home to the Tibetan people.
According to official figures cited by People's Online Daily, in 1990 nature reserves accounted for 4 percent of the land area of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
2014, Michael Buckley, Meltdown in Tibet, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:Now Sikang Province has been liquidated, the eastern part being merged with Szechuan Province and the western part, the Chamdo (Kham) District, will incorporate itself in the Tibet Autonomous Region when it is established. Developments there will probably provide the Tibet Autonomous Region with useful experience for that future period.
1957, Alan Winnington, Tibet: Record of a Journey, London: Lawrence & Wishart, →OCLC, pages 57–58:The Tibet Autonomous Region covers of 1.23 million square kilometers and is located on a high plateau averaging 3,600 meters above sea level in southwestern China. According to the national census, the total population in the TAR was 2.2 million in 1990 (CPIRC, 1991). It has a strong religious tradition (Tibetan Buddhism), and its special religion-related culture has lasted for centuries.
1995, Rong Ma, edited by Calvin Goldscheider, Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building), Westview Press, →ISBN, page 40:I stay at the official guesthouse where, in September 1975, the delegation from the Central Government, headed by Mr Hua Kuo-feng, China's recent Prime Minister, came to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China (first proclaimed in September 1965).
1977, Han Suyin, Lhasa, the Open City, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
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Synonyms
Xizang Autonomous Region · Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-ch'ü · Tibetan Autonomous Region · TAR · Xizang Zizhiqu (from Mandarin Chinese) · Outer Tibet · TAR
Translations (9)
bo བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (administrative division) · uk Тибетський автономний район (administrative division) · ca Regió Autònoma del Tibet (administrative division) · cmn 西藏自治區 /西藏自治区 (administrative division) · hi तिब्बत स्वायत्त क्षेत्र (administrative division) · ja チベット自治区 (administrative division) · pl Tybetański Region Autonomiczny (administrative division) · fi Tiibetin autonominen alue (administrative division) · ko 티베트 자치구 (administrative division)