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Definition of: Tibet
(ti·bet′)
A former independent theocracy of central Asia, south of the Sinkiang-Uigur Autonomous Region, China, and north of India, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan; incorporated, 1950–1957, in China, as the Tibetan Autonomous Region; about 470,000 square miles; capital, Lhasa: Chinese Sitsang: also Thibet. Tibetan Pö (p).
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