Global Tibetan population: 5.5 million

Local drink: yak-butter tea

Tibetan Autonomous Region) population: 2.81 million (2006)

Funeral custom : sky burial

Average number of cups of tea drunk by a nomad per day: 40

World’s highest railway line: 5072m Tangula Pass on Qinghai–Tibet Railway

Number of functioning monasteries in Tibet: 1700

Land area: 1.23 million sq km, or one-eighth of China’s landmass

Average per capita net income for a Tibetan herder: US$300 (2050rmb)