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'''Xinjiang''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 新酱; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 新醬; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Xĭnjiáng; [[Wade-Giles]]: Sinkiang or Chinese Turkestan) 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 km<sup>2</sup>. The capital city is Ürümqi.
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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'). Over one million native [[Uyghur]]s are held in [[Chinese Communist]] [[gulag]]s.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un-idUSKBN1KV1SU</ref>
 
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The area was held under Soviet dominion from 1934<ref>[http://home.comcast.net/~markconrad/Sinkiang.htm#_ednref9 From “Yellow Russia” to the East Turkestan Republic], By Pavel Aptekar.  From Aleksandr Kiyan’s Russian-language website devoted to the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, 1918-1945 (home page at http:// rkka.ru), specifically the article [http://rkka.ru/oper/sinc/sinc.htm  ''Ot Zheltorossii do Vostochno-Turkestanskoi respuliki,''].  See also [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/China.html#PRC Kiangsi Soviet Republic], 1 Dec 1931 - 15 Oct 1934.</ref> until the planned immigration of Han Chinese began following the [[Communist]] takeover of China in 1949.
 
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==References==
 
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[[Category:Chinese Provinces, Municipalities and Regions]]
 

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