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Zangnan

Zangnan proper noun: south Tibet (a region including parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India).

Proper noun

Zangnan

  1. (In Chinese contexts) South Tibet (a region including parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India).
    • It is necessary also to map the border disputes over the region, in the context of its ecology and, in particular, water flows. Much of my analysis here falls on the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, claimed by China as Tsang Nan (South Tibet). The region was the main scene of Chinese incursions...[2023, Alexander E. Davis, “Competitive Dam Building in the Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River Basin”, in The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains: An International Political Ecology of the Himalaya...
    • "Zangnan is China's territory," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Monday in response to a question about the visit by India's Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah.2023 April 10, “China criticises Indian minister's visit to Arunachal Pradesh”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2023

Origin of Zangnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 藏南 (Zàngnán, “South Tibet”).

Questions about Zangnan

What does Zangnan mean?
Zangnan means south Tibet (a region including parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India).
What part of speech is Zangnan?
Zangnan is a proper noun.

Words near Zangnan in the dictionary

  1. Zanghis
  2. Zangi
  3. Zangid
  4. Zangids
  5. Zangis
  6. Zangnan
  7. Zango
  8. Zangomay
  9. Zangs
  10. Zangskari
  11. Zangwal

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