Graphics by Agnes Chang. Audio read by Hannah Beech and produced by Sarah Diamond.

Tibet is situated on the Tibet Plateau, which includes parts of neighboring Chinese provinces Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. These areas used to be part of Tibet until Chinese rule.

Using satellite images, a recent report shows 20 new Chinese settlements with about 7,000 residents in Bhutanese territory.

On flight-tracking maps there's often a big area with few or no planes ... you'll see that the gap is there — and there's a perfectly logical reason why. The Tibetan Plateau comprises an area of ...

International borders have changed dramatically over the centuries. In some cases entire countries have been erased from the ...

A recent research report has revealed startling developments along the China-Bhutan border, raising serious concerns over the ...

China has built 22 villages and settlements within Bhutan’s customary borders. And there is no sign that Bhutan can do ...

By the time it was discovered, China had already built two additional villages within Bhutan’s recognized borders. These ...

The demoiselle cranes, for example, migrated across the Tibetan plateau, and during that time ... [Related: These new interactive maps reveal the incredible global journeys of migrating birds.] ...

Geological map (modified from Liu et al ... During this stage, the tectonic evolutionary model of the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau involved mainly radial extrusion, the faults on the ...