Muslim region of China which is trying to secede and wish to become "East Turkistan". The East Turkestan Islamic Movement is on America's terrorist. [Go to source

an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people

("New Territories"): Autonomous region in northwestern China, 617,000 square miles in area, with a population of 10,424,000, including a number of central Asian Muslims known as Uighurs. The region's vast deserts contain valuable mineral resources and China's nuclear testing zones. Capital: Urumqi.

(sheen-jyang) A province in Northwestern China.

Xinjiang (Uyghur: (Shinjang); ; Postal map spelling: Sinkiang) is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area 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, and the Pakistan- and India-controlled parts of Kashmir to the west.