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Noun: Sinkiang  'sin'kyang
  1. 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
    - Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

Type of: province, state

Part of: Cathay [archaic], China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China [informal]

Encyclopedia: Sinkiang