Xizang Zizhiqu

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-ch'ü

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 西藏自治區／西藏自治区 (Xīzàng Zìzhìqū).

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːˈ(d)zæŋ (d)zɪdʒɪˌtʃuː/

Xizang Zizhiqu

1. Synonym of Tibet Autonomous Region: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • [1977 December, Mo Prophet, “Slow boat to China”, in Motor Boating & Sailing‎, volume 140, number 6, Hearst Corporation, ISSN 0027-1799, OCLC 137342560, page 4:

     In “Electronic Navigators” (October) your Loran position readout on the artwork is given as +30° 17.2’ lat. and -90° 90.6’ long. If we accept the convention that plus latitudes are north of the equator and minus longitudes are east of Greenwich, this places the vessel in the Hsi-Tsang Tzu-Chih-Ch’u Province (Tibetan Autonomous Region) of China. In other words, about 285 miles northeast of Mt. Everest. Who is the skipper? Is there a load of paired animals aboard? What is the vessel’s LOA (in cubits)? Is it raining a lot there?
     Mo Prophet
     Nazareth, Pa.
     Both the CIA and the National Council of Churches are investigating.]

   • 1986, “Some important birds and forest in Nepal”, in Forktail‎, ISSN 0950-1746, OCLC 1064456025, page 54:

     The species may be divided into three groups: (1) 24 entirely confined to the Himalayas, or extending marginally into the hills of Afghanistan in the west (one species just reaches the USSR, where it is rare), into neighbouring Xizang Zizhiqu (Tibet) to the north, or, in the case of two species, also into the hills of north-eastern India; (2) 88 with distributions as above but extending either south-east in the uplands through northern Burma to, in the case of some species, northern Viet Nam, or north-east further into China (four species have disjunct populations in Taiwan and one other has a tiny isolated pocket in south-east China); (3) ten that occur in lowland areas adjacent to the hills referred to in the first two groups.

   • 1988, N. J. Collar, P. Andrew, Birds to Watch‎, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, →ISBN, page 44:

     The species's total population is estimated at between 1,400 and 1,500; the main breeding area is probably Chang Tang, Xizang Zizhiqu, but counts are not available, and the known wintering populations include an estimated total of 800 in China, excluding Lhasa, Xizang Zizhiqu, where a further 140 winter (per D. A. Scott; see also Robson 1986), and between 500 and 600 in Bhutan (Clements and Bradbear 1986).

   • 2005, Jeff Rovin, War of Eagles (Tom Clancy's Op-Center)‎, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 46:

     Typically, an aide and a secretary rode home with the sixty-six-year-old native of the remote Xizang Zizhiqu province near Nepal.