Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are a people living in Tibet and some surrounding areas. They are one of the largest among the fifty-six nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu (Chinese nation), although in anthropological terms they include more than one ethnic group. According to an official census of 1959, the number of Tibetans in the PRC was 6,330,567 http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/white8.html. The SIL Ethnologue documents an additional 125,000 speakers of Tibetan living in India, 60,000 in Nepal, and 4,000 in Bhutan.

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Tibet - Fifty-six nationalities - People's Republic of China - Zhonghua Minzu - Anthropological - Ethnic group - 1959 - SIL Ethnologue - Tibetan - India - Nepal - Bhutan

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