Lhasa (prefecture-level city)Prefecture-level city in TibetPrefecture-level city in Tibet, ChinaAlso known asSimplified Chinese逻些Traditional Chinese邏些Hanyu PinyinLuóxiēTibetan nameTibetanལྷ་ས་Lhasa is the capital and largest city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is a prefecture-level city that covers an area of 29,274 square kilometres (11,303 sq mi) of rugged and sparsely populated terrain.
Tibet Autonomous RegionAutonomous region of ChinaAutonomous region in ChinaTibet Autonomous RegionSimplified Chinese西藏自治区Traditional Chinese西藏自治區Hanyu PinyinXīzàng ZìzhìqūTibetan nameTibetanབོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།Manchu nameManchu scriptᠸᠠᡵᡤᡳᡩᡯᠠᠩRomanizationwargi DzangMongolian nameMongolianTöbhödiin öörtöö zasakh oronThe Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), often shortened in English to Tibet and sometimes to Xizang, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Chengguan, ChamdoChengguan (Tibetan: ཁྲེང་ཀོན་གྲོང་རྡལ, Wylie: Khreng kon grong rdal, ZWPY: Chênggoin Chongdai; Chinese: 城关镇; pinyin: Chéngguān Zhèn) is a major town in the historical region of Kham in the eastern Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is the seat of Karub District and Chamdo Prefecture, and had a population of 45,861 in 2010. It is located about 600 km (370 mi) east of Lhasa.
ShigatseTibetan nameTibetanགཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་, Wylie: gzhis ka rtse, ZWPY: xigazê) or Rikaze (Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé), is a prefecture-level city in the south-central and southwestern parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
Tibetan pinyinThe SASM/GNC/SRC romanization of Standard Tibetan, commonly known as Tibetan pinyin or ZWPY (Chinese: ; pinyin: Zàngwén Pīnyīn), is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in China. It is based on the pronunciation used by China National Radio's Tibetan Radio, which is based on the Lhasa dialect.
Prefecture-level cityA prefecture-level city (simplified Chinese: 地级市; traditional Chinese: 地級市; pinyin: Dìjíshì) or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. It usually consists of multiple sub-prefecture-level cities or towns and the surrounding countryside.
People's Liberation ArmyThe People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the primary armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four services—Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force—and four arms—Aerospace Force, Cyberspace Force, Information Support Force, and Joint Logistics Support Force.
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PinyinScheme for the Chinese Phonetic AlphabetSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseLiteral meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .
Wylie transliterationWylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter. The system is named for the American scholar Turrell V. Wylie, who created the system and published it in a 1959 Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies article. It has subsequently become a standard transliteration scheme in Tibetan studies, especially in the United States.
Tibetan scriptThis article contains Tibetan script. Without proper , you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters.Karub, QamdoTibetan nameTibetanམཁར་རོ་ཆུས།Karub District also known as Kharro or Karuo, is a district in Qamdo, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the seat of government of Qamdo. Karuo has an area of 10,700 km and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetan. The average temperature is 7.6 °C, with average temperatures of −2.3 °C in January and 16.3 °C in July. The average precipitation is 467 mm per year.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.