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Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 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.
4 days ago · Xinjiang, autonomous region of China, occupying the northwestern corner of the country. It is bordered by the Chinese provinces of Qinghai and Gansu to the east, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south, Afghanistan and the disputed territory of Kashmir to the southwest, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Apr 12, 2019 · 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 people since...
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Mar 24, 2021 · Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a vast and remote region in China’s far west. Stretching 1.6 million square kilometers (640,000 sq miles) from the Tibetan plateau...
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- Jessie Yeung,James Griffiths,Nectar Gan
May 24, 2022 · 24 May 2022. Getty Images. The Uyghurs are the largest minority ethnic group in China's north-western province of Xinjiang. China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and...
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The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
Aug 25, 2023 · Xinjiang profile - BBC News. 25 August 2023. Xinjiang, the largest and most westerly region of China, is bordered by eight countries including the former Soviet Central Asian republics,...
