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(TibetanReview.net, May17’25) – To the rest of the world the highest peak in the world is Mt Everest. To Nepal, on whose northern border its southern part rises, it is Sagarmatha. And to Tibet, on whose southern border its northern part stands, it is Jomolangma. China never had a name for it because it was never a part of its territory, until it annexed Tibet in the 1950’s.
China calls Mt Everest ‘Chomolungma’, a distorted, apparent pinyin rendition of its Tibetan name.
At the opening session on May 17 of a three-day international ‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ forum organized by Nepal in capital Kathmandu, Xiao Jie, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People&r...
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