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Welcome to Tibet. This travel brochure provides fundamental facts about this enchanting land – its geographical features, environment, climate, history, politics, economy, society, culture, and folk customs. It also tells what you need to know upon arrival on the plateau, and about its culinary etiquette and customs. May it be your guide and window to the Roof of the World and all its wonders! 欢迎您到中国西藏——这里不仅向您介绍西藏地理、环境、气候以及历史、政治、经济、 社会、文化和民俗等方面的信息，还向您提供初到高原时应注意的事项、以及西藏的饮食礼 俗等知识，为您打开一扇了解西藏、感知西藏的窗口…… Geography Tibet Autonomous Region is on the main body of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwestern China, situated 26.52 to 36.32 degrees north latitude and 78.24 to 99.06 degrees east longitude. Its local neighbours are Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces, and it shares a 4,000 kilometer border with India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar. Covering an area of more than 1.2 million square kilometers, the region constitutes about one eighth of China’s territory. Standing at the world’s highest latitude, the vast Tibet plateau is known as “Roof