Qinghai / tʃ ɪ ŋ ˈ h aɪ / (青海; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining.. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, …

The 2010 Yushu earthquake struck on April 14 and registered a magnitude of 6.9 M w (USGS, EMSC) or 7.1 M s (CEA, CENC).It had a maximum felt intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale.It originated in Yushu, Qinghai, China, at 7:49 am local time (23:49 April 13 UTC). According to the Xinhua News Agency, 2,698 people were confirmed dead, 270 missing and …

Tibet (/ t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t / (); Tibetan: བོད་, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøː˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 西藏; pinyin: Xīzàng) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi). It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people.Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, Sherpa and Lhoba ...

Die im Westen wegen des Zielbahnhofs Lhasa-Bahn, auch Tibet-Bahn, in China Qinghai-Tibet-Bahn, bzw.Qingzang-Bahn genannte normalspurige eingleisige, teilweise elektrifizierte Eisenbahnstrecke in der Volksrepublik China verbindet Xining, die Hauptstadt der Provinz Qinghai, mit Lhasa, der Hauptstadt des Autonomen Gebietes Tibet.Die Gesamtstrecke …

The Tibetan Plateau (Tibetan: བོད་ས་མཐོ།, Wylie: bod sa mtho), also known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau (Chinese: 青藏高原; pinyin: Qīng–Zàng Gāoyuán) or as the Himalayan Plateau in India, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of South, Central and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai ...

Oost-Azië is het oostelijke deel van het Aziatische continent.De landen van Oost-Azië stonden, samen met Zuidoost-Azië, lang bekend onder de inmiddels verouderde, eurocentrische naam van het Verre Oosten.De naam 'Oost-Azië' heeft zowel een aardrijkskundige als een culturele connotatie.Geografisch gezien, beslaat deze regio 6.640.000 km², oftewel 15% van het …

Xining (/ ʃ iː ˈ n ɪ ŋ /; [ɕí.nǐŋ]), alternatively known as Sining, is the capital of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.. The city was a commercial hub along the Northern Silk Road's Hexi Corridor for over 2000 years, and was a stronghold of the Han, Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties' resistance against nomadic attacks from the west.

Amdo (Tibetan: ཨ༌མདོ [ʔam˥˥.to˥˥]; Chinese: 安多; pinyin: Ānduō) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being U-Tsang in the west and Kham in the east. Ngari (including former Guge kingdom) in the north-west was incorporated into Ü-Tsang. Amdo is also the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama.Amdo encompasses a large area from the Machu (Yellow …

Los fideos, a veces conocidos por su nombre en inglés, noodles ( /nuːdlz/), son un tipo de pasta con forma alargada. Los fideos pueden ser cortos, como el şehriye o el cabello de ángel, o bien largos y gruesos como los pici o los soba, igualmente largos pero más finos que los spaghetti, o extremadamente finos como los fideos de cristal.

The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also referred to as the 2008 Tibetan uprising in Tibetan media, was a series of protests and demonstrations over the Chinese government's treatment and persecution of Tibetans.Protests in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, by monks and nuns on 10 March have been viewed as the start of the demonstrations.Numerous peaceful protests and demonstrations …