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Xinjiang, [a] officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, [11][12] is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Being the largest province-level division of China by area and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world ...
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; Autonomous region: Capital: Ürümqi: Prefecture-level divisions; Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures: 1: Prefectural cities: 4 ...
An autonomous region is the highest level of minority autonomous entity in China, which has a comparably higher population of a particular minority ethnic group. There are five autonomous regions in China: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia (Nei Menggu), Ningxia, Tibet (Xizang), and Xinjiang (Chinese Turkestan).
Ürümqi [a] is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. [5] With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, as well as the largest in Central Asia in terms of population.
This is a list of cities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. A settlement with a population over 100,000 is usually counted as a city in China. The capital and largest city is Ürümqi. The list is in alphabetical order. Ürümqi. Korla, old and new. Town square of Yining. Prefectural-level
Although Xinjiang as a whole is designated as a "Uyghur Autonomous Region", since 1954 more than 50% of Xinjiang's land area are designated autonomous areas for 13 native non-Uyghur groups. [261] However, the borders were drawn so that no ethnic minority could exercise autonomy where they composed a majority.
The name Xinjiang was changed to Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where Uyghurs are the largest ethnicity, mostly concentrated in the south-western Xinjiang. [ 228 ] The Xinjiang conflict is a separatist conflict in China's far-west province of Xinjiang, whose northern region is known as Dzungaria and whose southern region (the Tarim Basin ...
Starting in the 20th century, Uyghur separatists and their supporters used East Turkestan as an appellation for the whole of Xinjiang (the Tarim Basin and Dzungaria) or for a future independent state in present-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. They reject the name Xinjiang (meaning "New Frontier" in Chinese) [8] because of the Chinese ...