Lhasa

China / Xizang / Lasa /
 capital city of state/province/region, former national capital, prefecture-level city (China)
Lhasa, the capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region, has a history of more than 1,300 years. It is the political, economic, cultural and transport center of the region. Lhasa covers an area of close to 30,000 square km. It has a downtown of 544 square km and a population of 400,000; 140,000 of its people live in the downtown area. Lhasa is home to the Tibetan, Han, and Hui peoples, as well as many other ethnic groups, but the Tibetan ethnic group makes up 87 percent of the total population.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa
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Coordinates:   29°40'10"N   91°6'20"E

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  • Long live TIBET!
  • Слобода за Тибет - We wish you a spiritual and financial freedom - Serbia
  • I hope that one day Tibet will have March the 11 like we Lithuanians
  • God bless Tibetan.
  • This kind of type of capital surprises people who can not be found anywhere else.
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