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'''Xinjiang''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 新酱; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 新醬; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Xĭnjiáng; [[Wade-Giles]]: Sinkiang) is a large region of north-western [[China]], bordering [[Mongolia]], [[Russia]] ([[Siberia]]), [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]] ([[Azad Kashmir]]) and [[India]] ([[Kashmir]]) as well as the Chinese provinces/regions of [[Gansu]], [[Qinghai]] and Xizang ([[Tibet]]). Its formal name is the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and it is the largest administrative district in China, with an area in excess of 1.6m sq km. The capital city is Urumqi.
'''Xinjiang''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 新酱; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 新醬; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Xĭnjiáng; [[Wade-Giles]]: Sinkiang) is a large region of north-western [[China]], bordering [[Mongolia]], [[Russia]] ([[Siberia]]), [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]] ([[Gilgit-Baltistan]]) and [[India]] ([[Jammu and Kashmir]]) as well as the Chinese provinces/regions of [[Gansu]], [[Qinghai]] and Xizang ([[Tibet]]). Its formal name is the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and it is the largest administrative district in China, with an area in excess of 1.6m sq km. The capital city is Urumqi.
The area came under the rule of the Chinese Empire in the eighteenth century and the name Xinjiang ('New Frontier') was first used in 1768. Xinjiang was constituted a province of the empire in 1884, following the repression of a Moslem uprising in the 1870s. Xinjiang has a non-Han Chinese majority; the main group, Uyghur, being a Turkic people (an obsolete alternative name for Xinjiang was 'Chinese Turkestan').
The area came under the rule of the Chinese Empire in the eighteenth century and the name Xinjiang ('New Frontier') was first used in 1768. Xinjiang was constituted a province of the empire in 1884, following the repression of a Moslem uprising in the 1870s. Xinjiang has a non-Han Chinese majority; the main group, Uyghur, being a Turkic people (an obsolete alternative name for Xinjiang was 'Chinese Turkestan').