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| Capital (and largest city) |
Urumqi | ||||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||||
| Ethnic Groups main |
Ughyurs | ||||||
| others | Kazakhs, Tibetans, Pashtuns, Han Chinese | ||||||
| Independence | from People's Republic of China | ||||||
| declared | July 1990 | ||||||
| recognized | October 1, 1991 | ||||||
Uyghurstan, (formerly called Xinjiang, a province of the former PRC) or East Turkistan, is a region located in northwestern China. It borders Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia. It is a predominantly Muslim region, of which the majority population consists of ethnic Uyghurs.
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