SINKIANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sinkiang mean? 

• SINKIANG (noun)
  The noun SINKIANG has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SINKIANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINKIANG (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

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)