Geography if Tibet
Geography
Almost completely surrounded by mountain ranges (including the Himalayas in the south and the Kunlun in the north), Tibet is largely a plateau averaging c.16,000 ft (4,880 m) in height. Most of the Himalaya mountain range lies within Xizang; Mount Everest lies on Xizang’s border with Nepal.
Many of the mightiest rivers of East Asia, especially the Chang (Yangtze), the Mekong, and the Thanlwin, rise in Tibet; the most important is the navigable Yarlung Zangbo, which follows an easterly course through the south of Tibet. North of the Yarlung Zangbo are many salt lakes, the largest being Nam Co in the east, which is the second largest salt lake of China
Xinjiang, Qinghai and Sichuan lie to the north and east of the Tibet Autonomous Region; India and Kashmir to the west; and Yunnan, Nepal, India and Bhutan to the south.
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