U-Tsang
The U-Tsang (Tibetan: Dbus-gtsang དབུསགཙང ་, Chinese: 衛藏, Pinyin: Wèizàng) is one of the three traditional provinces of the Tibet with the Amdo and the Kham. U-Tsang recovers the parts power station, mid-west and the North-West of Tibet. North is consisted of the Chang Thang, plate desert where the highest salted lakes of the sphere are; the south, close to the the Himalayas, is more fertile. In the west of U-Tsang the Ngari is, which was the seat of independent kingdoms absorptive later on by Tibet. The Amdo and the Kham are located respectively at the North-East and the south-east of U-Tsang. These two provinces are frontier Chinese provinces of the Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan. The Autonomous region of Tibet corresponds to little thing close to U-Tsang-Ngari and in Western Kham, the remainder of historical Tibet having been annexed to the frontier Chinese provinces.
U-Tsang was constituted by the union of Tsang (gTsang), stronghold of the Sakyapa extending from the center (Gyantse - Rgyang-rtse) towards the west until Ngari, and from U (Dbus), stronghold of the Gelugpa located in the center around Lhassa.
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