Kham (chn)

Kham

Kham ranks 4,851st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Brugg, Brčko, and Camerino. Memorable people born in Kham include 11th Dalai Lama, 9th Dalai Lama, and Sogyal Rinpoche. Kham has been the birth place of many religious figures and politicians. Kham is located in China.

Kham is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas, and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham presently covers a land area distributed between five regions in China, most of it in Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan, with smaller portions located within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan provinces. Read more on Wikipedia