Sinkiang
sin·kiang
noun
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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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From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 新疆 (Xīnjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
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