08/02/2007 | Two Tibetan women at Lhasa

The Tibetan people are a people indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the West to Myanmar and China in the East. In the People's Republic of China (PRC) they are one of the largest among the fifty-six ethnicities officially recognized to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu (Chinese nation). According to an official census of 1959, the number of Tibetans in the PRC was 6,330,567 [1]. The SIL Ethnologue documents an additional 125,000 Tibetan exiles living in India, 60,000 in Nepal, and 4,000 in Bhutan

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