La région autonome ne couvre qu'environ la moitié du Tibet ethnologique mais recouvre à peu de chose près le Tibet politique d'avant 1951. Cf. (en) Tibet, Tibet, A Personal History of a Lost Land By Patrick French : « It would be more realistic, French argues, for the Tibetans to base their claim on roughly the area of the current TAR, whose borders generally coincide with those of the de facto independent state between the two world wars ».
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(en) Yitong Wu and Chingman for RFA Cantonese, China replaces ‘Tibet’ with ‘Xizang’ in latest diplomatic documents, 2023.10.12 : « In fact, since 2019, Chinese official media outlets such as Global Times, People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency and CGTN have all used the term “Xizang” instead of “Tibet. »
