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Nation

China is one of the largest and most powerful of contemporary nation-states in the world today. It currently includes the vast majority of cultural Tibet in five of its western provinces - Tibet Autonomous Region (western, central and northern Tibet, and the western areas of eastern Tibet), Qinghai (northeastern Tibet), Sichuan (eastern Tibet), Yunnan (far southeastern Tibet), and Gansu (far northeastern Tibet).

  • China (English, Latin script, Original)
  • 中國 (Chinese, Traditional Chinese Characters, Original)
    • ཀྲུང་གོ (Chinese, Tibetan script, Chinese-to-Tibetan Transcription)
      • krung go (Chinese, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
      • Trunggo (Chinese, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • 中国 (Chinese, Simplified Chinese Characters, Traditional-to-Simplified Chinese Transliteration)
      • ཀྲུང་ཧྭ་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Chinese-to-Tibetan Transcription)
    • Zhongguo (Chinese, Latin script, Pinyin Transcription)
  • རྒྱ་ནག (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • rgya nag (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • Gyanak (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Etymology for རྒྱ་ནག:

Literally, “expanse-black.”

Place ID: F1

Geocode Name: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, Code: iso.alpha.2

Geocode Name: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, Code: iso.alpha.3

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