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Tibet has beautiful landscape and profound culture. Its brilliant and ancient monasteries and unique local custom attract flocks of tourists. Travelers are welcome to Tibet and to have a look of these rare wonders in the world.
Tibet Autonomous Region is located in southwest China---Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In south and west, it borders Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Kashmir area. It has an area of 1.22 million square kilometers and a population of 2.6163 million. More than 30 ethnic groups such as Han, Monba, Lhoba, Hui, Mongol, Naxi and Nu live here, the Tibetan account for over 92.2 percent.
As the main part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the region has an average elevation of more than 4,000 meters and it is famous as the "Roof of the world". The Mt. Qomolangma in the bordering area of China and Nepal is 8,848.13 meters tall, the highest peak in the world.
Tibet has a plateau climate featuring a big temperature change during the daytime and the night. The North Tibet Plateau is dry and cold. It has a low temperature, a long sunshine time, a strong radiation, less rainfalls and a small density of air.
In Tibet, the economic pillars are Agriculture and Livestork, cultivating mainly sheep, goats and yaks, and growing mainly barley, wheat, potato and rape. Also the region produces the famous medicine such as musk, pilose antler and snow lotus, all of these enjoy a good reputation at home and abroad. Tibet leads the country in the deposits of hydropower and thermal power and ranks second in the solar energy in the world.
As early as in the late Paleolithic Age the people were found here. During the past over 1000 years, Tibet maintained close cultural and economic exchange with inland. After the Revolution of 1911, the Repulican government established a representative office in Tibet in order to strengthen the management of the local government. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Tibet Autonomous Region was founded on September 1, 1965.