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Xinjiang (Uyghur ??????, Shinjang; Chinese ??; pinyin Xinjiang; Wade-Giles Hsin¹-chiang¹; Postal map spelling Sinkiang; Turkish Sincan, Sincan Uygur Özerk Bölgesi, or commonly known as Dogu Türkistan) is an autonomous region (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area (spanning over 1.6 million sq. km) which takes up about one sixth of the country's territory. Xinjiang borders the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the southeast, Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to the west. It administers most of Aksai Chin, a territory formally part of Kashmir over which India claims sovereignty.

"Xinjiang" or "Ice Jecen" in Manchu, literally means "New Frontier", a name given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China.^[1] It is home to a number of different ethnic groups, many of them Turkic, the largest of which is the Uyghur people. Older English-language reference works often refer to the area as Chinese Turkestan^[2], Sinkiang, East Turkestan, or Uyghuristan.

The east-west Tien Shan Mountains separate Dzungaria in the north from the Tarim Basin in the south. Dzungaria is dry steppe. The Tarim Basin is desert surrounded by oases. In the east is the Turfan Depression. In the west, the Tien Shan split, forming the Ili River valley.

According to JP Mallory, the Chinese sources describe the existence of "white people with long hair" or the Bai people in the Shan Hai Jing, who lived beyond their northwestern border.^[3]

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1. Xinjiang Plays World Human Rights Stepchild to Rock Star Tibet
August 21, 2008

While Tibet has played the role of China's "rock star" to human rights activists around the world, China's Xinjiang Province has been treated more like an unwanted stepchild. One reason is that Tibet has a true rock star in the exiled Dalai Lama. Another reason is that the strife in Xinjiang involves Muslim ethnic minorities with alleged ties to the most hated man in the Western world -- Osama Bin Laden. All of this, however, is simply unfair because what is happening in Xinjiang in terms of human rights violations may be even worse than the Tibetan repression. Xinjiang is China's larg... (read more)

Author: FSB Authors

2. The Turpan Depression-Adventure Travel
July 05, 2008

The Turpan Depression-Adventure Travel You haven’t been really low until you’ve been to China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Here millions of years ago, geological fidgetings-about farmed a 69,000odd sq km basin at the foot of the Tien Shan mountain range. In the middle of the so-called Turpan Depression is Aydingkol Lake the deepest point of which lies 154.5 metres below sea level. That makes it second lowest place on the face of the earth, after the Dead Sea in Jordan . This part of Xinjing province is a place ... (read more)

Author: jagi singh

3. Nubra valley in ladakh
October 25, 2007

The Nubra Valley has a historical romance, for the much famed Silk Route meandered along the banks of Nubra. From Xinjiang provinces of China via the mighty Karakoram Pass and Daulat Beg Oldi, travelers, traders, romantics, camels and horses traveled up and down in this valley reaching Leh before starting another long journey to Central Asia via Skardu and Gilgit. The graves of Yarkandi merchants of yore that one could see even today in Hunder, a village on the banks of Nubra, is a living testimony of this past journey. Undoubtedly, they provide a reminder, both poignant and piquant, of... (read more)

Author: manufacturer India

4. Jammu Kashmir-"Heaven on Earth"
October 19, 2007

Millions of tourists visit Jammu Kashmir every year to see its fascinating tourist destinations, exotic wildlife and heritage sights. Jammu Kashmir, situated in northern India has been famous for its natural beauty since time immemorial and has been aptly described as "Heaven On Earth". Formerly one of the largest princely states of India, it is bounded to the northeast by the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang and to the east by the Tibet, to the south by the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, and to the northwest and west by the Pakistani-administered portion of Kashmir. The administra... (read more)

Author: S Sharma

5. Xinjiang, China
June 09, 2007

Xinjiang, China by Tom Carter "He's from Pakistan.""No, no! He's Japanese." A lively group of Uyghurs orbiting around me at the Hotan marketplace in southern Xinjiang were vociferously debating the nationality of the 196cm foreigner standing before them. I am in fact a first-generation American of a hybrid Scandinavian-Mediterranean-Hispanic lineage, my dark brown features and unkempt travel whiskers often causing confusion amongst Asians who can't quite place my nationality. Ironically, Han Chinese often mistook me for a Weiwuerzu someone from Xinjiang. If there is one provinc... (read more)

Author: Tom Carter

6. Hao Bizarre, How Bazaar by Tom Carter
May 19, 2007

Hao Bizarre, How Bazaar by Tom Carter Perhaps the foremost reason why so few travelers make the journey to northwest China’s Xinjiang province is quite simply its vastness. Aside from being located on the exact opposite side of the country from Beijing, which itself is a long journey even by plane, the arid autonomous region is the largest territory in China, spanning over one-sixth of the second largest continent in the world. It’s also a long journey in terms of the cultural shift the traveler will experience especially when one spends a whole day in its street markets. And conversely,... (read more)

Author: Tom Carter

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