Sinkiang [
'sin'kjæŋ,'ʃin'kjɑ:ŋ]
n. 新疆(中国西北的一省)
sinkiang[ noun ]
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
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- In Eastern Turkestan, which the Chinese now call Sinkiang, the Chinese population has grown from 200,000 in 1949 to seven million, more than half of the total population of 13 million.