Tibetan people
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Tibetan people
The Tibetan people are a people indigenous to
Tibet
and surrounding areas stretching from
Central Asia
in the West to
Myanmar
and
China
in the East. In the
People's Republic of China
(PRC) they are one of the largest among the
fifty-six ethnicities
officially believed to constitute the
Zhonghua Minzu
("Chinese nation"). According to an official census of
1959
, the number of Tibetans in the PRC was 6,330,567
[1]
. The
SIL Ethnologue
documents an additional 125,000 Tibetan exiles living in
India
, 60,000 in
Nepal
, and 4,000 in
Bhutan
. The death toll in Tibet since the invasion of the
People's Liberation Army
in
1950
has been estimated at a median of 600,000.
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