Why Tibet is known as the ROOF OF THE WORLD?

Question

Why Tibet is known as the ROOF OF THE WORLD?

Answer 1

its situated at 4500 meters

Answer 2

Tibet is known as The Roof of the World because it has the highest average elevation of any country in the world.

Its elevation is, on average, is 16000 ft.

A couple of other areas are claiming that title now, but it has been associated the most with Tibet.

Answer 3

Because it's made of composites.

Answer 4

hey sneha.................cos tibet is extremely high n roof of the world cos people live at a great altitude.......bye

Answer 5

due to mountains....

Answer 6

Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR) borders Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan internally while India, Burma, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Nepal meet its external borders. It covers a massive 1,220,000 sq km (470,920 square miles), which is about 12.8% of the whole of China.

The average height of the whole region is more than 4,000 m above sea level, for which Tibet is known as the 'roof of the world'. The highest peak of Tibet is also the highest in the world. Mt Everest is 8,848 m above sea level. Most of the Himalaya mountain range, one of the youngest mountain ranges in the world at only 4 million years old, lies within Tibet.

The vast land is also the cradle of several great rivers such as the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Nu River (Salween), the Lancang River (Mekong), the Yarlong Tsangpo (Brahmaputra), the Indus, and the Ganges. Tibet also offers awe-inspiring scenery of beautiful lakes and valleys. Over 1,500 lakes including Heavenly Lake Namtso and the holy Lake Manasarova make Tibet the plateau with largest amount of lakes.

Why

The long history and exotic religion allures more and more tourists every year. Nearly all Tibetans follow Tibetan Buddhism, known as Lamaism, and there are therefore numerous monasteries, murals and sculptures, and solemn stupas built to worship Buddha.

Lhasa and Shigatse, the most important cities of Tibet, feature most of the religious monuments including the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery, Ramoche Monastery, Tashilunpo Monastery and Sakya Monastery.

Western Tibet, Ngari, is a vast barren plateau and as the place where the Holy Lake (Lake Manasarova) joins the Sacred Mountain (Mt. Kailash), Ngari is a holy pilgrimage destination of both -  Tibetans and Hindus, as well as a popular challenge to trekkers. As the climate is so difficult, few people live in this region. Therefore, Ngari is also the home of wild yak, Tibetan antelope, wild donkey, and many other rare wild animals.

Answer 7

I believe it's because the mountains are so high just the way that the roof is the highest part of a building.

Answer 8

Because the land of Tibet is the highest plateau in the world. Plateau is flat land, much higher than sea-level, like mountain which have flat land at the top, instead of peak.

Answer 9

Tibtens r on the roof of the world following

Sven Hedin's footsteps, the beauty of Tibetan landscape is

overwhelming and encounters with Tibetan culture are seldom

fruitless.

Tibet, which remained closed to the outside world until a few

decades ago,has attracted both Buddhist and Hindu pilgrims for

centuries. Mount Kailash, considered the abode of god Shiva, has

always been a holy mountain for the Hindus.

Even European travellers, researchers, traders and missionaries

have been attracted by the widely unknown Shangri-La behind the

world's highest mountains.

The first Europeans to arrive in Tibet, as far as known, are

the Jesuit fathers Johann Grueber of Austria and Belgian Albert

d'Orville in April 1661 going by foot from China to Europe. They

turned away disappointed from the Tibetans who had little use for

the Christian missionaries.

British colonial officers were among the Europeans who left a

lasting impression in the country. The foremost among them was

Francis Younghusband who marched up to Lhasa in 1904 with 1,000

soldiers and four cannons.

Younghusband forbade the Tibetans, who were caught off guard by

his expedition from having any ties with Czarist Russia and

extracted trade concessions from them. Then after an inexplicable

"deep religious experience," he reorganised his warlike existence.

French religious scholar Alexandra David-Neel was also

converted to Buddhism after going up to Lhasa incognito as a beggar

in 1923. She remained a Buddhist till her death at the age of 100

in 1969.

There was also the Austrian Heinrich Harrer, who escaped with

his friend Peter Aufschnaiter from a British detention camp in

India during World War II to spend the famous "seven years in

Tibet", the title of his book on his experiences in the country.

Those who travel to Tibet follow the footsteps of interesting

forerunners,provided they can put up with the thin mountain air.

Even the healthiest can suffer from high altitude sickness, which

could be fatal and only a quick descent to less than 2,500 metres

helps.

But such places are rare in the world's highest plateau. One

must be physically fit to cross passes 5,000 to 6,000 metres high.

But the visitors must be well informed above all of the historical

and political background, since the Chinese present a false,

one-sided picture.

Chinese restrictions on tourists have clearly been relaxed in

the last few years. Small groups can now travel directly to Tibet

and individual travellers coming directly from China are no longer

denied permission to stay in cheaper hotels.

Baggage searches for Tibetan leader Dalai Lama's pictures or

banned travel guides are things of past. But the special form of

communist fleecing in some tourist hotels where one has to pay in

advance for bad food and even the filthiest rooms are overcharged

continues.

Tourists in Tibet are a blessing for the Chinese as bringers

of foreign exchange, but at the same time they are a curse. The

Chinese have not forgotten that the information about the 1987

anti-Chinese uprising in Lhasa leaked out of Tibet because of

tourists.

Therefore a local guide is attached to even a small group of

tourists. The Tibetans among them often request the tourists to

shop from their compatriots. Tibetans have rather gained than lost

from tourism.

Even the Dalai Lama sees no dangers from tourism in Tibet.

"More tourists will change rather than the Tibetan view of life,"

he said in an interview to a German travel magazine few years ago.

Answer 10

The Tibetan Plateau , also known as the Qinghai-Tibetan (Qingzang) Plateau is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in the People's Republic of China and Ladakh in Kashmir. It occupies an area of around 1,000 by 2,500 kilometers, and has an average elevation of over 4,500 meters. Sometimes called "the roof of the world," it is the highest and biggest plateau, with an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (about four times the size of Texas or France).[1]

The Tibetan Plateau is surrounded by towering mountain ranges.[2] It is bordered to the northwest by the Kunlun Range which separates it from the Tarim Basin, and to the northeast by the Qilian Range which separates the plateau from the Gobi Desert. Near the south the plateau is transected by the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley which flows along the base of the Himalayas, and by the vast Indo-Gangetic Plain. To the east and southeast the plateau gives way to the forested gorge and ridge geography of the mountainous headwaters of the Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze rivers in western Sichuan and southwest Qinghai. In the west it is embraced by the curve of the rugged Karakoram range of northern Kashmir