Tibetan Submitted Place Names

Tibetan names are used by the Tibetan people who live in the region of Tibet in central Asia.
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An-kha-ra ཨན་ཁ་ར (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Ankara.
Ar Jen Ti Na ཨར་ཇེན་ཊི་ན (Country) Tibetan, Bhutanese
Tibetan and Dzongkha form of Argentina.
Ar Me Ni Ya ཨར་མེ་ནི་ཡ (Country) Tibetan, Bhutanese
Tibetan and Dzongkha form of Armenia.
Bal Yul བལ་ཡུལ (Country) Bhutanese, Tibetan
From Bhutanese and Tibetan བལ (bal) meaning "Nepal" and ཡུལ (yul) meaning "country, nation". This is the Bhutanese and Tibetan name for Nepal.
Bhah-ryin བྷཧ་རཡིན (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Bahrain.
Bhang La Rde Shu བྷང་ལ་རྡེ་ཤུ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Bangladesh.
Bhar Ma བྷར་མ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Burma.
Bhi Ru Ni བྷི་རུ་ནི (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Brunei.
Bod བོད (Region, Political Subdivision & Country) Tibetan, Bhutanese
Possibly from a name that originally referred to the inhabitants of modern-day Nyêmo County in China. The name itself may be related to the Tibetan word བོན (bon) meaning "express, give, offer"... [more]
Chomolungma ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (Mountain) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Mount Everest.
Chomolungma ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (Mountain) Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (see Jo-mo-glang-ma).
Dho-ha དྷོ་ཧ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Doha.
Druk Yul འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ (Country) Bhutanese, Tibetan
From Tibetan འབྲུག (brug) meaning "thunder dragon" (a mythical creature in Bhutanese and Tibetan mythology) combined with ཡུལ (yul) meaning "country, nation, kingdom". This is the Bhutanese and Tibetan name for Bhutan.
E-she-ya ཨེ་ཤེ་ཡ (Region) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Asia.
Gle གླེ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Leh.
Harshanca ཧིར་ཤིན་ཅ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Helsinki.
Hi-ma-la-ya ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ (Mountain) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Himalaya.
Hphi-li-pin ཧྥི་ལི་པིན (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Philippines.
In Rdu Ni Shis Ya ཨིན་རྡུ་ནི་ཤིས་ཡ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Indonesia.
I Si Ra El ཨི་སི་ར་ཨེལ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Israel.
Jo-mo-glang-ma ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (Mountain) Tibetan
Possibly means "holy mother", "mother of the universe" or "goddess mother of the world" in Tibetan. This is the Tibetan name for Mount Everest.
'Jor-ji-ya འཇོར་ཇི་ཡ (Country & Political Subdivision) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Georgia 1 and Georgia 2.
Kaz-ka-stan ཀཟ་ཀ་སྟན (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Kazakhstan.
Kham Po Dza ཁམ་པོ་ཛ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Cambodia.
Kha-tar ཁ་ཏར (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Qatar.
Khre-bhi-li-si ཁྲེ་བྷི་ལི་སི (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Tbilisi.
Khu-wi-thi ཁུ་ཝི་ཐི (Country & Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Kuwait.
Ki-rgi-za-stan ཀི་རྒི་ཟ་སྟན (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Kyrgyzstan.
Ko Ri Ya ཀོ་རི་ཡ (Country) Tibetan, Bhutanese
Tibetan and Dzongkha form of Korea.
Krung Go ཀྲུང་གོ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Zhongguo, used as the Tibetan name for China.
La Dwags ལ་དྭགས (Region & Political Subdivision) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Ladakh.
Lhasa ལྷ་ས (Settlement) Tibetan, English
Probably from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) meaning "land of gods", derived from ལྷ (lha) meaning "deity, god" and ས (sa) meaning "land, earth". Alternatively, it may have been an alteration of Old Tibetan ར་ས (ra sa) meaning "land of goats" or "fortified land" from ར (ra) meaning "goat" or "enclosure" and ས (sa) meaning "land, earth"... [more]
Lhotse ལྷོ་རྩེ (Mountain) Tibetan
Lhotse is the name of a mountain in Tibet. Lhotse means “South Peak” in Tibetan. ... [more]
Ma-la-shi-ya མ་ལ་ཤི་ཡ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Malaysia.
Mal-di-wesu མལ་དི་ཝེསུ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Maldives.
Ma-ni-la མ་ནི་ལ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Manila.
Meg-si-ko མེག་སི་ཀོ (Country & Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Mexico.
Mtsho Sngon མཚོ་སྔོན (Body of Water & Political Subdivision) Tibetan
From Tibetan མཚོ (mtsho) meaning "lake, ocean" and སྔོན (sngon) meaning "blue". This is the Tibetan name for Qinghai Lake as well as the Chinese province of Qinghai.
Ni-ji-ri-ya ནི་ཇི་རི་ཡ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Nigeria.
Nyi Hong ཉི་ཧོང (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Nihon.
Pa-ga-ta པ་ག་ཏ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Baghdad.
Pa-ki-sa-than པ་ཀི་སི་ཐན (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Pakistan.
Pan-kog པན་ཀོག (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Bangkok.
Pe-cing-grong-khyer པེ་ཅིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར (Settlement) Tibetan
From Tibetan པེ་ཅིང (pe-cing) referring to Beijing combined with གྲོང་ཁྱེར (grong-khyer) meaning "city, town", used as the Tibetan name for Beijing.
Rda Ram Sa La རྡ་རམ་ས་ལ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Dharamshala.
Rgya Gar རྒྱ་གར (Country) Bhutanese, Tibetan
From Bhutanese and Tibetan རྒྱ (rgya) meaning "extent, size, vastness" or "empire" and དཀར (dkar) meaning "white". This is the Bhutanese and Tibetan name for India.
Rgya Nag རྒྱ་ནག (Country) Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "the black expanse" from Tibetan རྒྱ (rgya) meaning "extent, size, area, country" and ནག (nag) meaning "black". This is the Tibetan and Dzongkha name for China.
Seng-ga-gling སེང་ག་གླིང (Country & Island) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Sri Lanka.
Se Pi Ri Si སེ་པི་རི་སི (Island & Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Cyprus.
Shangrila (Body of Water) Pakistani, Tibetan
Shangrila is a name of Tibetan origin. The name means "heaven on earth". The name is mainly known in northern Pakistan. The "Shangrila Lake" in northern Pakistan is very famous among the country.
Sog Po སོག་པོ (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སོག (sog) referring to Mongolia and པོ (po) meaning "person". This is the Tibetan and Dzongkha name for Mongolia.
Sog Yul སོག་ཡུལ (Country) Tibetan
From Tibetan སོག (sog) referring to Mongolia and ཡུལ (yul) meaning "country, nation". This is the Tibetan name for the country of Mongolia.
Te-hi-ran ཏེ་ཧི་རན (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Tehran.
Tha'e-pe ཐའེ་པེ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Taipei.
Tha'e-wan ཐའེ་ཝན (Country & Island) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Taiwan.
Tha'i-len ཐའི་ལེན (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Thailand.
Tha-ji-khe-si-tan ཐ་ཇི་ཁེ་སི་ཏན (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Tajikistan.
Thimphu ཐིམ་ཕུ (Settlement) Bhutanese, Tibetan, English
From Bhutanese ཐིམ་ (thim) meaning "to sink" and ཕུ་ (phu) meaning "high ground, foothill, upland" or "to fly". This is the name of the capital city of Bhutan.
Tho-khe-yo ཐོ་ཁེ་ཡོ (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Tokyo.
Tur-ki ཏུར་ཀི (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Turkey.
Wi-ti-nam ཝི་ཏི་ནམ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Vietnam.
Wu-lan-ba-thur ཝུ་ལན་བ་ཐུར (Settlement) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Ulaanbaatar.
Yi La' Kho ཡི་ལའ་ཁོ (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Iraq.
Yi-lang ཡི་ལང (Country) Tibetan
Tibetan form of Iran.