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An estimated 80% of Xinjiang's Uyghurs still live in the Tarim Basin. [28] The rest of Xinjiang's Uyghurs mostly live in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, which is located in the historical region of Dzungaria. The largest community of Uyghurs living outside of Xinjiang are the Taoyuan Uyghurs of north-central Hunan's Taoyuan County. [29]
Modern Uyghurs developed ethnogenesis in 1955, when the PRC recognized formerly separately self-identified oasis peoples. [97] Southern Xinjiang is home to most of the Uyghur population, about nine million people, out of a total population of twenty million; fifty-five percent of Xinjiang's Han population, mainly urban, live in the north.
East Turkestan or East Turkistan (Uyghur: شەرقىي تۈركىستان, ULY: Sherqiy Türkistan, UKY: Шәрқий Туркистан), also called Uyghuristan (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇرىستان, UKY: Уйғуристан), is a loosely-defined geographical region in the northwestern part of the People's Republic of China, on the cross roads of East and Central Asia. [6]
As with other ethnic groups in the United States, Uyghur Americans also have several organizations. The most well-known organizations are: the Uyghur American Association, [5] a Washington D.C.–based advocacy organization which was established in 1998 by a group of Uyghur overseas activists to raise the public awareness of the Uyghur people
As of 1999, 89.37% of the population of Kashgar (Kasi) Prefecture was Uyghur and 9.1% of the population was Han Chinese. [34] In 1997, the population of Kashgar Prefecture was 3,145,000 with Uyghurs making up 89.4% of the total. [20] As of 1983–4, Kashgar Prefecture had 6,180 mosques. In the mid-1980's, there were two million Uyghurs in ...
After the Uyghur Khaganate was brought to an end by the Kirghiz in 840, they submitted to the Tang and killed the Uyghur commissioners"" (in English) (1989) The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China., Oxford: Blackwell ISBN: 9781557863249. ""In 758, the Uyghurs Conquered Yenisei Kyrgyz.
Some 50,000 Uyghurs are estimated to live in Turkey, the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia. Turks have close ethnic, religious and linguistic ties to the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim people ...
The estimate for the number of Uyghurs living Turkey varies across sources. In 2018, The Economist reported that over 10,000 Uyghurs live in Turkey. [1] Voice of America estimated over 45,000 Uyghurs live in Turkey, based from Uyghur advocating groups, with 10,000 as refugees. [2]