Gar

Proper noun

1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • No crops had ever grown before at the high altitude of Menshih Township of Gar County at the foot of Kangtiszu Peak. - 1972, Kao Yuan-ching, “Changes on the Ari Plateau”, in Great Changes in Tibet [西藏巨变], 1st edition,...
   • The figures indicate that Han peoples form 12 per cent of the registered residents of Gar county, and that Tibetans are 87.5 per cent of the county and 97.6 per cent of the prefecture.⁵⁸ - 1994, Graham E. Clarke, “The...