Ü-Tsang

Proper noun

Ü-Tsang

1. One of the three traditional regions of Tibet covering a land area largely corresponding to most of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
   • "In the Kongpo area of U-Tsang alone, more than 20,000 Chinese soldiers and Tibetan prisoners are involved in tree felling and transport," says the report.[1992 June 9, “Tibetan Neighbors Note Ecological 'Degradation'”, in Daily Report: China, number 111, sourced from Hong Kong South China Morning Post p 21 and Tibet Environment and Development Issues...
   • The Northern Plain (U-Tsang)
     The Northern Plain is the largest region of the country. This vast area called the Changthang, covers a large portion of the country. To the extreme north is a cold, desolate desert quarter neighboring on the Chinese-Turkestan border that is mostly uninhabited. The...[1998, Robert Z. Apte, Andrés R. Edwards, “The Geography of the Land of Snows”, in Tibet: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land, 1st edition, Heartsfire Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20