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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 ...
Administrative divisionsof China. Province-level (1st) Sub-provincial level. Prefecture-level (2nd) Sub-prefectural-level. County level (3rd) Analogous county level units. Township level (4th) Analogous township level units.
Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution ...
UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang. The OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China is a report published on 31 August 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concerning the treatment of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim groups ...
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.
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.
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [13] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
This region has been called Western Regions (Chinese: 西域; pinyin: xīyù) in China's history [1] and is currently known as China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a provincial-level jurisdiction. The name 'Xinjiang' literally means "new territory" in Chinese, [2] and originated in the early Qing dynasty, it referred to Manchu 's newly ...