Tibet Autonomous Region

Now Sikang Province has been liquidated, the eastern part being merged with Szechuan Province and the western part, the Chamdo (Kham) District, will incorporate itself in the Tibet Autonomous Region when it is established. Developments there will probably provide the Tibet Autonomous Region with useful experience for that future period.

1957, Alan Winnington, Tibet: Record of a Journey, London: Lawrence & Wishart, →OCLC, pages 57–58

I stay at the official guesthouse where, in September 1975, the delegation from the Central Government, headed by Mr Hua Kuo-feng, China's recent Prime Minister, came to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China (first proclaimed in September 1965).

1977, Han Suyin, Lhasa, the Open City, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10

The Tibet Autonomous Region covers of 1.23 million square kilometers and is located on a high plateau averaging 3,600 meters above sea level in southwestern China. According to the national census, the total population in the TAR was 2.2 million in 1990 (CPIRC, 1991). It has a strong religious tradition (Tibetan Buddhism), and its special religion-related culture has lasted for centuries.

1995, Rong Ma, edited by Calvin Goldscheider, Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building), Westview Press, →ISBN, page 40