In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is ...

This county is in eastern Tibet, an autonomous region controlled by China, and near the border with India and Myanmar. The new species was identified by its shell, internal anatomy and DNA ...

Imagine the conductor of a vast orchestra stood not at the front, but in the middle of all the musicians, dictating how they ...

Yunnan Province Map: Comprising nearly 44 percent karst landscape ... provinces in southern China — from Guangxi and Hubei in the east to Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and parts of Tibet in the west. To ...

Sharing its east border with Tibet, Ladakh has Lahaul and Spiti to its south and the Kashmir valley to the west. Strategically placed on ancient trade routes, Ladakh lies between the Kunlun ...

Every now and again, an exhibition comes along that is so epic in scale and astonishing in ambition that it transforms the ...

Often hailed as an engineering marvel, the Qinghai-Tibet railway soars to an incredible height of 5,702m, making it the ...

Scientists found an “agitated,” stinging creature hiding under rocks in Tibet and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto High up in the mountains of ...

Ice samples from the Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau contained over 1,700 ... potentially transported from areas like the Middle East or even the Arctic,” said lead author ZhiPing Zhong.