The Gazetteer is designed to provide information about all varieties of places in Tibet and the Himalayas, in past and present times - nations, provinces, counties, monasteries, villages, mountains, natural regions and more.
The current release includes administrative units in contemporary China that have ethnic Tibetan populations, with detailed information only for the subunits of the Tibet Autonomous Region. We are now working on our formal 1.0 release, which will include details for all five provinces in China with Tibetan populations, and all politicial districts of Nepal as well. In the subsequent phase we will begin to incorporate our extensive data on Tibetan monasteries.
In order to browse place names, click on the "Browse places" link to the left, and the tree of place names will appear in this frame.
To search for a place name, enter it in the search box to the left and click on the "Search for place" button (try entering "lha sa"). Search results will be shown in the lower left frame; clicking on specific place name there will display its record in this frame.
Note: You will need a Unicode font to view the Chinese characters, and another Unicode font to view Tibetan words.