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Tibet Autonomous Region

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President Xi Jinping visits Lhasa in Tibet Autonomous Region

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Xi Jinping visits Nyingchi in Tibet Autonomous Region

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What Are China's Autonomous Regions?

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Take a look at fascinating sights in China's Tibet Autonomous Region

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Lhasa’s building boom raises concern about income gap in capital of China’s Tibet autonomous region

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region in Southwest China. It was formally established in 1965 to replace the Tibet Area, an administrative division the PRC inherited from the Republic of China (ROC), about 5 years after the dismissal of the Kashag by the PRC [this is contested] following the 1959 Tibetan uprising, and about 13 years from the Tibet's incorporation into the PRC in 1951.