Yushu Tibetan Autonomous PrefectureTibetan nameTibetanཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, ZWPY: Yüxü Poirig Ranggyong Kü, Chinese: 玉树藏族自治州; pinyin: Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu, retranscribed into Tibetan as ཡུལ་ཤུལ།), also transliterated as Yüxü or Yulshul, is an autonomous prefecture of Southwestern Qinghai Province, China.
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.
TibetTibet () is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the homeland of the Tibetans. Other ethnic groups also reside on the plateau, including Mongols, the Lhoba, Monpa, Qiang, Sherpa, and since the 20th century, Han and Hui peoples. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 m (14,000 ft).
Tibetan PlateauThe Tibetan Plateau, also known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, Qingzang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia. Geographically, Tibet is located to the north of the Himalayas and the Indian subcontinent, and to the south of the Tarim Basin and the Mongolian Plateau.
TanggulashanTibetan nameTibetanགདང་ལ་གྲོང།Tibetan nameTibetanགདང་ལ་གྲོང།Tanggulashan (simplified Chinese: 唐古拉山镇; traditional Chinese: 唐古拉山鎮; pinyin: Tánggǔlāshān Zhèn; lit. 'Tanggula Mountains town', Standard Tibetan: གདང་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ།), or Dangla Town, is a town in the southwest of Qinghai province, 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.
QinghaiTibetan nameTibetanམཚོ་སྔོན།Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicХөхнуурMongolian scriptᠬᠥᠬᠡᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷManchu nameManchu scriptᡥᡠᡥᡠᠨᠣᠣᡵRomanizationHuhu NoorOirat nameOiratKokonurThis article contains Mongolian script. Without proper , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of text in Mongolian script.
Chinese languageChinese (spoken: simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, written: 中文; Zhōngwén) is a collection of language varieties containing almost all Sinitic languages except Macro-Bai languages, natively spoken by the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in Greater China, as well as by communities of the overseas Chinese.
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.
Lhasa TibetanStandardized dialect of TibetanLhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan is a standardized dialect of Tibetan spoken by the people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" classification of the Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan).
NagquNagqu (also Naqu, Nakchu, or Nagchu; Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ།, Wylie: Nag-chu, ZWPY: Nagqu; Chinese: 那曲; lit. 'black river') is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Autonomous Prefecture of Tibet. On May 7, 2018, the former Nagqu Prefecture was officially declared the sixth prefecture-level city in Tibet after Lhasa, Shigatse, Chamdo, Nyingchi and Shannan.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.