South Tibet

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 藏南 (Zàngnán).

Proper noun

South Tibet

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see south,‎ Tibet. (the southern part of Tibet)
   1. (in particular, in the People's Republic of China) Those areas located south of the McMahon Line, which are administered as the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, and claimed by China as a part of Tibet.
      • 2020 June 19, Ajai Shukla, “How China and India Came to Lethal Blows”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 19, 2020, Opinion‎^[2]:

        The Sino-Indian border dispute involves about 13, 500 square miles in Ladakh and Aksai Chin and about 35,000 square miles in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China calls South Tibet.

Coordinate terms

• Tibet
• Greater Tibet
• Inner Tibet
• Outer Tibet
• Zangnan

Translations

South Tibet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藏南 (zh) (Zàngnán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can