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- Ürümqi [a] is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. 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.
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Ürümqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. 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.
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Apr 12, 2019 · Summary. About eleven million Uyghurs—a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group—live in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million...
- Lindsay Maizland
May 24, 2022 · There are about 12 million Uyghurs, mostly Muslim, living in Xinjiang, which is officially known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The Uyghurs speak their own language, which is...
The size of the Uyghur population, particularly in China, has been the subject of dispute. Chinese authorities place the Uyghur population within the Xinjiang region to be just over 12 million, comprising approximately half of the total regional population.
- 11.8 million
- 200,000 (2010)
- 223,100 (2009)
- 100,000–300,000
May 12, 2024 · Pop. (2006 est.) city, 1,504,252; (2007 est.) urban agglom., 2,151,000. History. The area first came under full Chinese control in the 7th and 8th centuries, when the Chinese established the protectorate general of Beiting some 80 miles (130 km) to the east.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 8, 2021 · According to official Chinese records, there are 12 million Uighurs, representing almost half the population in Xinjiang. A recent report published in Xinhua news agency quoted China’s top...
Jun 14, 2021 · URUMQI — The population of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region increased by 18.52 percent from 2010 to 2020, the country's seventh population census showed. Xinjiang's permanent population had reached 25.85 million by October 2020, a rise of about 4.04 million from the country's sixth population census in 2010, the latest ...
