Tibet, officially the Tibet Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of China occupying most of the Tibetan Plateau, the highest region on Earth, administered by China since its incorporation in the 1950s; a Tibetan government in exile based in Dharamsala, India, continues to dispute Chinese rule, a dispute this description records as fact without asserting either side's claim as settled. Its capital is Lhasa.
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Source Yuthog Yontan Gonpo (Wikipedia)Lead sectionQuote, Lead section
a mythical 8th-century high lama and a physician of Tibet
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Source Songtsen Gampo (Wikipedia)Infobox, birth placeQuote, Infobox, birth place
Tibet Autonomous Region
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Later in his life he moved to the region of Dakpo (dwags po) in southern Tibet and hence was also called Dakpopa (dwags po pa), the man from Dakpo.
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He is also credited with serving the king as his minister and escorting two princesses from Nepal and China into Tibet to become Songtsen Gampo's queens.
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Source Tibeto-Kanauri languages (Wikipedia)Infobox: regionQuote, Infobox: region
Nepal, Tibet, Northeast India and other neighboring areas
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Source Himalayan marmot (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitat, where it lives (2)Quote, Distribution and habitat, where it lives (2)
In China, it has been recorded in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Tibet, western Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.
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1. GeoNames: Tibet Autonomous Region
GeoNames geonameid 1279685 (Tibet Autonomous Region), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Tibet Autonomous Region (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia infobox 'area_total_km2' = '1228400' on 'Tibet Autonomous Region'
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It was established in 1965 to replace the Tibet Area, a former administrative division of the Republic of China.
Wikidata: Tibet
Wikidata Q17269, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source GeoNames: Lhasa - GeoNames
GeoNamesHas Capital: Lhasa, cities500 record 1280737, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 14)Quote, Has Capital: Lhasa, cities500 record 1280737, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 14)
29.65 91.1 P PPLA CN 14 5401 867900 3651 Asia/Shanghai
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