Tibet is situated on the Tibet Plateau, which includes parts of neighboring Chinese provinces Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. These areas used to be part of Tibet until Chinese rule.

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

On flight-tracking maps there's often a big area with few ... is there — and there's a perfectly logical reason why. The Tibetan Plateau comprises an area of approximately 965,000 square miles ...