Editing Tibet Autonomous Region (section)

== Politics ==
{{See also|People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region|List of modern political leaders of Tibet|List of current Chinese provincial leaders}}

The Tibet Autonomous Region is a province-level entity of the People's Republic of China. Chinese law nominally guarantees some autonomy in the areas of education and language policy. Like other subdivisions of China, routine administration is carried out by a [[People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region|People's Government]], headed by a [[Chairman of Tibet|chairman]], who has been an ethnic Tibetan except for an interregnum during the [[Cultural Revolution]]. As with other Chinese provinces, the chairman carries out work under the direction of the [[Party Secretary of Tibet|regional secretary]] of the [[Chinese Communist Party]]. The standing committee of the [[Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party|regional Communist Party Committee]] serves as the top rung of political power in the region. The current chairman is [[Garma Cedain]] and the current party secretary is [[Wang Junzheng]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}

=== Administrative divisions ===
{{Main list|List of administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region|List of township-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region}}

The Autonomous Region is divided into seven [[Administrative divisions of China#Prefectural level|prefecture-level divisions]]: six [[Prefecture-level city|prefecture-level cities]] and one [[Prefectures of the People's Republic of China|prefecture]].

These in turn are subdivided into a total of 66 [[County (People's Republic of China)|counties]] and 8 [[District of China|districts]] ([[Chengguan District, Lhasa|Chengguan]], [[Doilungdêqên District|Doilungdêqên]], [[Dagzê District|Dagzê]], [[Samzhubzê District|Samzhubzê]], [[Karub District|Karub]], [[Bayi District|Bayi]], [[Nêdong District|Nêdong]], and [[Seni District|Seni]]).

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto 1em auto; font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"
! colspan="9" |Administrative divisions of Tibet Autonomous Region
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{{Image label|x=900|y=555|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text='''[[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]]'''}}
{{Image label|x=580|y=620|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text='''[[Shigatse|Xigazê]]'''}}
{{Image label|x=1280|y=500|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text='''[[Chamdo|Qamdo]]'''}}
{{Image label|x=1185|y=600|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text='''[[Nyingchi]]'''}}
{{Image label|x=890|y=680|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text='''[[Shannan, Tibet|Shannan]]'''}}
{{Image label|x=730|y=330|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text='''[[Nagqu]]'''}}
{{Image label|x=285|y=290|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text='''[[Ngari Prefecture|Ngari<br>Prefecture]]'''}}
{{Image label|x=900|y=100|scale={{{1|825}}}/1500|text=<span style="color: red;">☐</span> <span style="color: grey;">'''Areas disputed with India or Bhutan (see [[Sino-Indian border dispute]] and [[Bhutanese enclaves]])'''</span>}}
{{Image label end}}
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!! scope="col" rowspan="2" | [[Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China|Division code]]<ref>{{cite web |language=zh-Hans-CN |url=http://files2.mca.gov.cn/cws/201502/20150225163817214.html |script-title=zh:中华人民共和国县以上行政区划代码 |publisher=[[Ministry of Civil Affairs]] |access-date=7 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113603/http://files2.mca.gov.cn/cws/201502/20150225163817214.html |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Division
!! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Area in km<sup>2</sup><ref name="nj2013">{{zh}}{{cite book |language=zh-Hans-CN |author=Shenzhen City Bureau of Statistics |publisher=[[:zh:中国统计出版社|China Statistics Print]] |script-title=zh:《深圳统计年鉴2014》 |url=http://www.sztj.gov.cn/nj2014/indexce.htm |access-date=29 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512184740/http://www.sztj.gov.cn/nj2014/indexce.htm |archive-date=12 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Population 2020<ref>{{cite book |editor1 = Census Office of the State Council |editor2 = Population and Employment Statistics Division of the [[National Bureau of Statistics of China|National Bureau of Statistics]] |script-title = zh:中国2010人口普查分乡、镇、街道资料 |year=2012 |publisher=[[:zh:中国统计出版社|China Statistics Print]] |location=Beijing |isbn=978-7-5037-6660-2 |edition=1st }}</ref>
!! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Seat
!! scope="col" colspan="3" | Divisions<ref>{{cite book |language=zh-Hans-CN |author=Ministry of Civil Affairs |script-title=zh:《中国民政统计年鉴2014》 |date=August 2014 |publisher=[[:zh:中国统计出版社|China Statistics Print]] |isbn= 978-7-5037-7130-9 |author-link=Ministry of Civil Affairs }}</ref>
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!! scope="col" width="45" | [[District (China)|Districts]]
!! scope="col" width="45" | [[Counties of the People's Republic of China|Counties]]
!! scope="col" width="45" | [[County-level city|CL cities]]
|- style="font-weight: bold"
! 540000 !! Tibet Autonomous Region
| 1,228,400.00 || 3,648,100 || [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]] city || 8 || 64 || 2
|-
! 540100 !! [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]] city
| 29,538.90 || 867,891 || [[Chengguan District, Lhasa|Chengguan District]] || 3 || 5 ||bgcolor="grey"| 
|-
! 540200 !! [[Shigatse|Shigatse / Xigazê]] city
| 182,066.26 || 798,153 || [[Samzhubzê District]] || 1 || 17 ||bgcolor="grey"| 
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! 540300 !! [[Chamdo|Chamdo / Qamdo]] city
| 108,872.30 || 760,966 || [[Karuo District]] || 1 || 10 ||bgcolor="grey"| 
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! 540400 !! [[Nyingchi]] city
| 113,964.79 || 238,936 || [[Bayi District]] || 1 || 5 || 1
|-
! 540500 !! [[Shannan, Tibet|Shannan / Lhoka]] city
| 79,287.84 || 354,035 || [[Nêdong District]] || 1 || 10 || 1
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! 540600 !! [[Nagqu]] city
| 391,816.63 || 504,838 || [[Seni District]] || 1 || 10 ||bgcolor="grey"| 
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! 542500 !! [[Ngari Prefecture]]
| 296,822.62 || 123,281 || [[Gar County]] ||bgcolor="grey"|  || 7 ||bgcolor="grey"| 
|}
[[File:IMG 1565 Yamdrok Tso.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Yamdrok Lake]]]]
[[File:NamTso scene.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Namtso Lake]]]]
{|class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="text-font:90%; width:auto; text-align:center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"
! colspan="6" |Administrative divisions in Tibetan, Chinese, and varieties of romanizations
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! English !! Tibetan !! Tibetan Pinyin !! Wylie transliteration !! Chinese !! Pinyin
|-
| '''Tibet Autonomous Region''' || {{bo-textonly|བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།}} || '''Poi Ranggyongjong''' || '''bod rang skyong ljongs''' || {{lang|zh|西藏自治区}} || '''Xīzàng Zìzhìqū'''
|-
| [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]] city || {{bo-textonly|ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} || Lhasa Chongkyir || lha sa grong khyer || {{lang|zh|拉萨市}} || Lāsà Shì
|-
| [[Shigatse|Xigazê]] city || {{bo-textonly|གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} || Xigazê Chongkyir || ggzhis ka rtse grong khyer || {{lang|zh|日喀则市}} || Rìkāzé Shì
|-
| [[Chamdo|Qamdo]] city || {{bo-textonly|ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} || Qamdo Chongkyir || chab mdo grong khyer || {{lang|zh|昌都市}} || Chāngdū Shì
|-
| [[Nyingchi]] city || {{bo-textonly|ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} || Nyingchi Chongkyir || nying khri grong khyer || {{lang|zh|林芝市}} || Línzhī Shì
|-
| [[Shannan, Tibet|Shannan]] city || {{bo-textonly|ལྷོ་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} || Lhoka Chongkyir || lho kha grong khyer || {{lang|zh|山南市}} || Shānnán Shì
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| [[Nagqu]] city || {{bo-textonly|ནག་ཆུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།}} || Nagqu Chongkyir || nag chu grong khyer || {{lang|zh|那曲市}} || Nàqū Shì
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| [[Ngari Prefecture]] || {{bo-textonly|མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ།}} || Ngari Sakü || mnga' ris sa khul || {{lang|zh|阿里地区}} || Ālǐ Dìqū
|}

====Urban areas====
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="font-size:90%;"
! colspan=5 | Population by urban areas of prefecture & county cities
|-
! # !! Cities !! style="background-color: #aaaaff;"| 2020 Urban area<ref name="2020PRCcensus">{{cite book |author=国务院人口普查办公室、国家统计局人口和社会科技统计司编 |date=2022 |script-title=zh:中国2020年人口普查分县资料 |location=Beijing |publisher=[[:zh:中国统计出版社|China Statistics Print]] |isbn=978-7-5037-9772-9}}</ref> !! style="background-color: #aaaaff;"| 2010 Urban area<ref name="2010PRCcensus">{{cite book |author=国务院人口普查办公室、国家统计局人口和社会科技统计司编 |date=2012 |script-title=zh:中国2010年人口普查分县资料 |location=Beijing |publisher=[[:zh:中国统计出版社|China Statistics Print]] |isbn=978-7-5037-6659-6}}</ref> !! style="background-color: #ffaaaa;" | 2020 City proper
|-
|1||'''[[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]]'''||551,802||199,159{{efn|name=Lhasa|New districts established after census: [[Doilungdêqên District|Doilungdêqên (Doilungdêqên County)]], [[Dagzê District|Dagzê (Dagzê County)]]. These new districts not included in the urban area & district area count of the pre-expanded city.}} ||867,891
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|2||[[Shigatse|Xigazê]]||94,464||63,967{{efn|name=Xigazê|Xigazê Prefecture is currently known as Xigazê PLC after census; Xigazê CLC is currently known as [[Samzhubzê District|Samzhubzê]] after 2010 census.}} ||798,153
|-
|3||[[Nyingchi]]||60,696||bgcolor="lightgrey"|{{efn|name=Nyingchi|NyingchiPrefecture is currently known as Nyingchi PLC after census; Nyingchi County is currently known as [[Bayi District|Bayi]] after 2010 census.}}||238,936
|-
|4||[[Shannan, Tibet|Shannan]]||54,188||bgcolor="lightgrey"|{{efn|name=Shannan|Shannan Prefecture is currently known as Shannan PLC after census; Nêdong County is currently known as [[Nêdong District|Nêdong]] after census.}}||354,035
|-
|5||[[Chamdo|Qamdo]]||50,127||bgcolor="lightgrey"|{{efn|name=Qamdo|Qamdo Prefecture is currently known as Qamdo PLC after census; Qamdo County is currently known as [[Karuo District|Karuo]] after census.}}||760,966
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|6||[[Nagqu]]||31,436||bgcolor="lightgrey"|{{efn|name=Nagqu|Nagqu Prefecture is currently known as Nagqu PLC after census; Nagqu County is currently known as [[Seni District|Seni]] after 2010 census.}}||504,838
|- bgcolor="lightyellow"
|(7)||[[Mainling]]||5,915{{efn|name=Mainling|Mainling County is currently known as Mainling CLC after 2020 census.}}||bgcolor="lightgrey"| ||{{small|''see Nyingchi''}}
|- bgcolor="lightyellow"
|(8)||[[Tsona|Cona]]||2,871{{efn|name=Cona|Cona County is currently known as Cona CLC after 2020 census.}}||bgcolor="lightgrey"| ||{{small|''see Shannan''}}
|}
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