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Tibet Area 西藏地方 བོད་ལྗོངས | |||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
23 May 1951 | |||||||||||
• Replacement of Kashag with the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region after the 1959 Tibetan rebellion | 1959 | ||||||||||
20 October 1962 | |||||||||||
• Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region | 22 April 1965 | ||||||||||
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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. 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.[5] It merged with the Chamdo Region and was transformed to Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965 after the 1959 Tibetan uprising.[6]