Ü-Tsang
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Tibetan དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang).
Proper noun edit
Ü-Tsang
- One of the three traditional provinces of Tibet in China.
- [2008 March 21, “Who are the Tibetans, what is Tibet?”, in Reuters[1], archived from the original on 27 June 2022, Global Coverage 2[2]:
- The government-in-exile calls Tibet “Cholka-sum”, meaning “The Three Provinces”. These historic areas are U-Tsang, which roughly corresponds to the TAR, Amdo centred around Qinghai Province, and Kham centred around Sichuan in China’s southwest.]
- 2020 July 11, Akhilesh Pillalamarri, “History of Tibet-Ladakh Relations and Their Modern Implications”, in The Diplomat[3], archived from the original on 13 July 2020[4]:
- The Tibetan plateau — the geographic and cultural region associated with Tibet — has traditionally been divided into four historical regions. Three are almost entirely in China: Amdo in the north, now associated mostly with Qinghai and Gansu provinces in China, Kham in the east, split between Sichuan province and TAR, and Ü-Tsang, or central Tibet, the region is generally identified with the idea of Tibet, both culturally and administratively, although parts of Ü-Tsang extend to northern Nepal and the Indian states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.