Tibet

=== Regions ===
[[File:Gongbo'gyamda, Nyingchi, Tibet, China - panoramio (19).jpg|thumb|[[Basum Tso]] in [[Gongbo'gyamda County]], eastern Tibet]]
Cultural Tibet consists of several regions. These include Amdo (''A mdo'') in the northeast, which is administratively part of the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan. Kham (''Khams'') in the southeast encompasses parts of western Sichuan, northern [[Yunnan]], southern Qinghai, and the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region. [[Ü-Tsang]] (''dBus gTsang'') (Ü in the center, Tsang in the center-west, and Ngari (''mNga' ris'') in the far west) covered the central and western portion of Tibet Autonomous Region.<ref>Petech, L., [https://books.google.com/books?id=V1GkmBOQLkAC ''China and Tibet in the Early XVIIIth Century: History of the Establishment of Chinese Protectorate in Tibet''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101191608/https://books.google.com/books?id=V1GkmBOQLkAC&printsec=frontcover&sig=6eAnf2zWcz7L113XKhOc8cCv8MI |date=January 1, 2016 }}, p51 & p98</ref>

Tibetan cultural influences extend to the neighboring states of [[Bhutan]], Nepal, regions of India such as [[Sikkim]], [[Ladakh]], [[Lahaul]], and [[Spiti]], Northern Pakistan [[Baltistan]] or [[Balti-yul]] in addition to designated Tibetan [[autonomous area]]s in adjacent Chinese provinces.