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20-September-2008 09:29:08 - Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau lies between the Himalayan range to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north The Tibetan Plateau lies between the Himalayan range to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north The Tibetan Plateau , also known as the Qinghai-Tibetan Qingzang Plateau is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in China and Ladakh in Kashmir, India. It occupies an area of around 1,000 by 2,500 kilometers, and has an average elevation of over 4,500 meters. Sometimes called the roof of the world, it is the highest and biggest plateau, with an area of 2.5 million square kilometers about four times the size of Texas or France.1 The Tibetan Plateau is surrounded by towering mountain ranges.2 It is bordered to the northwest by the Kunlun Range which separates it from the Tarim Basin, and to the northeast by the Qilian Range which separates the plateau from the Gobi Desert. Near the south the plateau is transected by the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley which flows along the base of the Himalayas, and by the vast Indo-Gangetic Plain. To the east and southeast the plateau gives way to the forested gorge and ridge geography of the mountainous headwaters of the Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze rivers in western Sichuan and southwest Qinghai. In the west it is embraced by the curve of the rugged Karakoram range of northern Kashmir. Contents 1 Description 2 Nomads 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 References 6 Notes 7 External links Description NASA satellite image of the southern area of Tibetan Plateau NASA satellite image of the southern area of Tibetan Plateau The plateau is a high-altitude arid steppe interspersed with mountain ranges and large brackish lakes. Annual precipitation ranges from 100 mm to 300 mm and falls mainly as hailstorms. The southern and eastern edges of the steppe have grasslands which can sustainably support populations of nomadic herdsmen, although frost occurs for six months of the year. Proceeding to the north and northwest, the plateau becomes progressively higher, colder and drier, until reaching the remote Changtang region in the northwestern part of the plateau. Here the average altitude exceeds 5,000 meters 16,500 feet and year-round temperatures average -4 °C, dipping to -40 °C in winter. As a result of this extremely inhospitable environment, the Changtang region together with the adjoining Kekexili region is the least populated region in Asia, and the third least populated area in the world after Antarctica and northern Greenland.citation needed For extensive parts of the plateau, permafrost occurs. Nomads One of the greatest advances in human culture is the development of nomadic pastoralism, the adaptation by nomadic people to survival on the world's grassland by raising livestock rather than crops which are unsuitable to the terrain. Nomads currently surviving on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayas are the remainders of nomadic practices historically once widespread in Asia and Africa.3 Gallery Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and Sichuan Province of China lie on the Tibetan Plateau. See also Geography of Tibet Taklamakan Desert Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau Lop Nur References ^ Natural World: Deserts. National Geographicc. Retrieved on 2007-07-23. ^ A Unique Geographical Unit. Retrieved on 2007-08-05. ^ David Miller. Nomads of Tibet and Bhutan. asinart.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-10. Notes The End of Earth's Summer Long Rivers and Distant Sources Roof of the Earth Offers Clues About How Our Planet Was Shaped External links Plateau Perspectives international NGO Leaf morphology and the timing of the rise of the Tibetan Plateau Todays weather in the eastern Chang Tang Protected areas of the Tibetan Plateau region North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert Photos of Tibetan nomads Roof of the Earth Offers Clues About How Our Planet Was Shaped v d e Geography topics Geography · History of geography Branches Human Behavioral · Cultural · Demography · Development · Economic · Feminist · Health · Historical · Political · Regional · Urban Physical Biogeography · Climatology · Coastal · Environmental · Geodesy · Geomorphology · Glaciology · Hydrology · Landscape ecology · Limnology · Oceanography · Palaeogeography · Pedology · Quaternary science Techniques Cartography · Geographic Information Systems GIS · Geostatistics · Global Positioning System GPS · Remote sensing · Spatial data analysis · Qualitative methods Societies American Geographical Society · Association of American Geographers · European Geography Association · Geographical Association · Hong Kong Geographical Association · International Geographical Union · National Geographic Society · Royal Canadian Geographical Society · Royal Geographical Society · Royal Scottish Geographical Society · Russian Geographical Society · Saudi Geographical Society · Society of Woman Geographers · Société de Géographie Lists Basic topics · Geographers · Geography of countries v d e Subfields of physical geography Biogeography · Climatology / Paleoclimatology · Coastal geography · Geomorphology · Glaciology · Hydrology / Hydrography · Landscape ecology · Limnology · Oceanography · Palaeogeography · Pedology · Quaternary science Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Tibetan_Plateau Categories: Physical geography | Plateaus of China | Geography of Tibet | Physiographic provincesHidden categories: All articles with statements | Articles with statements since November 2007 Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages БългарÑ?ки Català Deutsch Eesti Español Ù?ارسی Français 文言 í•œêµì–´ Bahasa Indonesia Lietuvių Nederlands 日本語 ‪Norsk nynorsk‬ Polski Português Română РуÑ?Ñ?кий SlovenÄ?ina ไทย Tiếng Việt ä¸æ–‡ This page was last modified on 5 August 2008, at 19:38
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