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| | Tibet -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Tibetan Bod, in full Tibet Autonomous Region, Chinese (Wade-Giles) Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-ch'ü, (Pinyin) Xizang Zizhiqu historic region and autonomous region of China that is often called the roof of the world. It occupies about 471,700 square miles (1,221,600 square kilometres) of the plateaus and mountains of Central Asia, including Mount Everest (Chu-mu-lang-ma Feng). |
 | | It lies between the Kunlun Mountains (north) and the Himalayas (south) and is a region of tangled mountains that rise 13,000 to 15,000 feet (4,000 to 5,000 metres). |
 | | An autonomous region of China that is located along China's southern frontier with India, Nepal, and Bhutan, Tibet is composed of 471,700 square miles (1,221,700 square kilometers) of high plateaus and some of the tallest mountains in the world. |
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