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Xinjiang Uygur, or Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous
region of NW China. area 1,646,800 sq
km/635,665 sq mi capital Urumqi features
largest of Chinese administrative areas;
Junggar Pendi (Dzungarian Basin) and Tarim
Pendi (Tarim Basin, which includes Lop Nor,
China's nuclear testing ground, although the
research centres were moved to the central
province of Sichuan 1972) separated by the
Tyan Shan mountains products cereals, cotton,
fruit in valleys and oases; uranium, coal,
iron, copper, tin, oil population (1996)
13,970,000 religion 50% Muslim history under
Manchu rule from the 18th century. Large
sections were ceded to Russia 1864 and 1881;
China has raised the question of their return
and regards the 480-km/300-mi frontier
between Xinjiang Uygur and Soviet Tadzikistan
as undemarcated.