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Southern Xinjiang or Nanjiang (Chinese: 南疆; pinyin: Nánjiāng) is the southern half of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Its historical name was Altishahr ( Chinese : 回部 ; pinyin : Huíbù ), which also includes some territories in modern-day Afghanistan , Kyrgyzstan , and Tajikistan .
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Mountain ranges of Xinjiang (3 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Mountains of Xinjiang" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
The Makan Map is an online interactive atlas of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. [1] [2] [3] [4] This region covers an area of 1,664,897 km 2, or 16% ...
The Tarim Basin is the oval desert in Central Asia. Xinjiang consists of two main geographically, historically, and ethnically distinct regions with different historical names, Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin (), which Qing China unified into Xinjiang province in 1884. [3]
The Han Communists in the central government denied the name Xinjiang was colonialist and denied that the central government could be colonialists both because they were communists and because China was a victim of colonialism. However, due to the Uyghur complaints, the administrative region would be named "Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region ...
A 1901 map showing the areas around Chinese Turkestan. Chinese Turkestan, also spelled Chinese Turkistan, [1] is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole [2] [3] which was under the rule of the Qing dynasty of China.
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