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Indo-Nepal border in the first political map of independent India in 1947 [e] A 1955 US Army map of the Byans region, with the Kalapani territory extending to the northeast A CIA map of the borders of Nepal, 1965, shows the Kalapani territory as part of India. In 1923, Nepal received recognition from the British as a completely independent ...
Nepal is landlocked by China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north and India on other three sides. West Bengal's narrow Siliguri Corridor separate Nepal and Bangladesh. To the east are Bhutan and India. Nepal has a very high degree of geographic diversity and can be divided into three main regions: Terai, Hilly, and Himal.
The music of Tibet reflects the cultural heritage of the trans-Himalayan region, centered in Tibet but also known wherever ethnic Tibetan groups are found in India, Bhutan, Nepal and further abroad. First and foremost Tibetan music is religious music , reflecting the profound influence of Tibetan Buddhism on the culture.
Yamdrok Lake. The geography of Tibet consists of the high mountains, lakes and rivers lying between Central, East and South Asia.Traditionally, Western (European and American) sources have regarded Tibet as being in Central Asia, though today's maps show a trend toward considering all of modern China, including Tibet, to be part of East Asia.
The Lipulekh Pass (Chinese: 里普列克山口) is a Himalayan pass on the border between Uttarakhand, India and the Tibet region of China, [2] near their trijunction with Nepal. Nepal has had ongoing claims to the southern side of the pass, called Kalapani territory , which has been under Indian administration since around 1960, but this issue ...
Geopolitically, it covers most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern ...
It primarily denotes Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan; some definitions also include Afghanistan and Myanmar. [1] [2] Two countries—Bhutan and Nepal—are located almost entirely within the mountain range, which also covers southern Tibet, the Indian Himalayan Region, and northern Pakistan. [3]
The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, [5] [note 1] is an autonomous region of China and part of Southwestern China. It was formally established in 1965 to replace the Tibet Area, the former administrative division of the PRC established after the annexation of Tibet in 1951.