Tibet Area (administrative division)

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Tibet Area 西藏地方 བོད་ལྗོངས
Area of the Republic of China (1912–1951) Area of the People's Republic of China (1951–1965)
1912–1965
Map of the de jure Tibet Area within the ROC
Capital	Lhasa
Area
• 1953	1,221,600 km2 (471,700 sq mi)
Population
• 1953	1,274,969
History
• Tibet Area claimed by the ROC Provisional Government	1 January 1912
• Established	1951
• Seventeen Point Agreement	23 May 1951
• Replacement of Kashag with the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region after the 1959 Tibetan rebellion	1959
• Sino-Indian War	20 October 1962
• Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region	22 April 1965
Preceded by Succeeded by Tibet under Qing rule Tibet Tibet Autonomous Region
Today part of	China ∟ Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Area (Chinese: 西藏地方; pinyin: Xīzàng Dìfāng, also translated as Tibet Region in the 1954 Sino-Indian Agreement) was a province-level administrative division of China in the 20th century. It was de jure created after the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912,^[1] and nominally includes the Ü-Tsang (central Tibet) and Ngari (western Tibet) areas, but not the Amdo and Kham areas.^[2][3][4] The territories were merely claimed by the ROC, but actually controlled by an independent Tibet with a government headed by the Dalai Lama in Lhasa. At this time, the scope of de facto independent Tibet included the "Tibet area" and the Chamdo area west of the Jinsha River, which claimed by China.^[5] The ROC retreated to Taiwan and lost control of mainland China to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949; afterwards, the ROC continued to claim Tibet.

The PRC annexed Tibet in 1951 and continued to call it Tibet Area.^[6] It merged with the Chamdo Region and was transformed to Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965 after the 1959 Tibetan uprising.^[7]