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SINKIANG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Meronyms (members of "Sinkiang"):
Uighur; Uigur; Uygur (a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas)
Domain member region:
East Turkestan Islamic Movement; East Turkistan Islamic Movement (a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression)
Holonyms ("Sinkiang" is a part of...):
Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)
