TheTibet Autonomous Region (TAR),Tibet orXizang for short, cried theXizang Autonomous Region (Tibetan:བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།;Cheenese:西藏自治区) an aw, is aprovince-levelautonomous region o theFowkrepublic o Cheenae (PRC). It wis creatit in 1965 on the basis o an admeenistrative region which haed beenincorporatit intae the PRC in 1951.
Athin the Cheenae, Tibet is identifeed wi the Autonomous Region, which includes aboot hauf oethno-cultural Tibet, includin the traditional provinces oÜ-Tsang an the wastren hauf oKham. The borders o the present Autonomous Region coincide roughly wi the actual zone o control o the then-govrenment o Tibet in 1950. The Tibet Autonomous Region is the seicont-lairgestprovince-level diveesion o Cheenae bi aurie, spannin ower1,200,000 square kilometre (460,000sqmi), efterXinjiang, an due tae its generally hairsk terrain, is the least densely populatit provincial-level diveesion o the PRC.
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