The Tibetan People

The Tibetan people are indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the North and West to Myanmar and India, Nepal and Bhutan to the south. In the east within China, the Tibetan are mainly distributed in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces, and most of them live on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over 4,000 m altitude.

Numbering 5.4 million, the Tibetan are the 10th largest of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.