About Tibet tour
Tibet, a rich and beautiful land, is located at the main part of Qinghai-Tibet plateau, south-West frontier of China. Tibet borders with Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai And Xinjiang, contiguous east to India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Burma, and bounded by Kashmir on the west.
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When the word Tibet is mentioned something icy chills the readers` nerves. In fact it snows only once or twice in a year and owing to the perpetuity of bright sunshine, it is not at all cold during the daytime even in the coldest of the winter. Tibet is so sunny that it produces a year-round sunshine of over 3,000 hours in a year. Tibet is almost popularly known as the "land of snow". People always imagine it covered by thickly snow with hardly any signs Of inhabitation, but acturally, it is correct only when it is referred to the world greatest ranges located in Ima, the Tisi, and like. These ranges, run by leaps and bounds across the country showing their beautiful snow covered peaks against the bluest of skies. กก Geographically, Tibet can be divided into three majoy parts, the east, north and south. The eastern part is forest region, occupying approximately one-fourth of the land. Virgin forests run The entire breadth and length of this part of Tibet. The northern part is open grassland, where nomads and yak and sheep dwell in. This part occupies approximately half of Tibet. The southern and central part is agricultural region, occupying about one-fourth of Tibet`s land area. With all major Tibetan cities and towns such as Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse ad Tsetang located in this area, it is considered the cultural center of tibet. The total area of the Tibet Autonomous Region is 1,200,000 square kilometers and its population is 1,890,000. The region is administratively divided into one municipality and six prefectures. The municipality is Lhasa, while the six prefectures are Shigatse, Ngari, Lhaoka, Chamdo, Nakchu and Nyingtri(kongpo). The People`s Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region exercises the highest administrative authority in Tibet. กก |
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