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Bookmark or Share- Tibet | History, Map, Capital, Population, Language, & Facts | BritannicaTibet, historic region and autonomous region of China that is often called ‘the roof of the world.’ It occupies a vast area of plateaus and mountains in Central Asia, including Mount Everest. The name Tibet is derived from the Mongolian Thubet, the Chinese Tufan, the Tai Thibet, and the Arabic Tubbat.
- Tibet - WorldAtlasTibet is the Earth’s highest region and shares Mount Everest (the world’s highest mountain) with Nepal. It is nicknamed “the roof of the world."
- Tibet summary | BritannicaTibet emerged as a powerful Buddhist kingdom in the 7th–9th century ce. It came under the control of the Mongols in the 13th century and the Qing (Manchu) dynasty in the 18th century. After the 1911–12 Chinese Revolution, it gained a measure of autonomy.
- History of Tibet - WikipediaTibet has been called the "roof of the world" and "the land of snows". Linguists classify the Tibetan language and its dialects as belonging to the Tibeto-Burman languages, the non-Sinitic members of the broader Sino-Tibetan language family.
- Tibet - WikipediaTibet (/ t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t / ⓘ; Tibetan: བོད, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøːʔ˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 藏区; pinyin: Zàngqū), or Greater Tibet, [1] is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi). It is the homeland of the Tibetan people.
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