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.

While many lakes worldwide are shrinking, the northern Tibetan Plateau is experiencing a dramatic expansion. Satellite images ...

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 ...