བོད་གཞུང་དགའ་ལྡན་ཕོ་བྲང་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ (Bod Gzhung Dga' Ldan Pho Brang Phyogs Las Rnam Rgyal) (Tibetan) | |||||
| Anthem | "བོད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱལ་གླུ། (Bod Rgyal Khab Chen Po'i Rgyal Glu)" | ||||
| Capital (and largest city) |
Lhasa | ||||
| Language official |
Tibetan | ||||
| others | Mandarin | ||||
| Religion | Buddhism | ||||
| Demonym | Tibetan | ||||
| Government | Unitary Theocratic Monarchy | ||||
| Dalai Lama | Tenzin Gyatso | ||||
| Population | 3,800,000 estimate | ||||
| Currency | Tibetan srang | ||||
| Internet TLD | .tb | ||||
| Organizations | UN | ||||
Tibet is a landlocked country in central southern Asia. Historically a territory occupied by China under dynastic rule, it achieved independence in 1944.
History[]
Before annexation[]
Second World War[]
Second Independence[]
All of mainland China wiotnesses small-scale replicas of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. With the Soviet Union on the verge of collapsing, aid to China was cut. Tibet, being the most isolated region in China, begged for its independence.
In October 1989, at the Seoul Conference, the United Nations partitioned China into four countries while ceding Inner Mongolia to Mongolia. Tibet was declared independent on October 6, along with East Turkestan and Manchuria. The Beijing government called it "a historical defeat" and briefly cut its ties with Tibet.
Today[]
Government and politics[]
Since Tibet regained its independence, it became a theocratic monarchy with a limited government. The country's head of state is its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Culture[]
Languages[]
Media[]
The radio and television industries of Tibet are quite limited. Voice of Tibet was founded in 1959 as the broadcaster of the autonomous region under Chinese rule, a television channel was added in 1985. In 1989, following the loss of Chinese territories, Voice of Tibet restructured itself by taking over frequencies formerly claimed by China National Radio and China Central Television and diversified its scope of contents. Today, Voice of Tibet operates services in Tibetan, Mandarin and English, on both radio and television.