The Geographical-Historical Perspective

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Xinjiang for short, sits on China's west-northwest frontier, bordering Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region) to the south, Jammu & Kashmir - and Pakistan - to the southwest, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgystan to the west, Kazakhstan to the northwest, Russia to the north, and Mongolia ("Outer" Mongolia, as distinct from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) to the northeast. To the east lie the two Chinese provinces of Qinghai and Gansu. There is probably no other region on earth with so many foreign countries on its borders, and certainly no other region, or province, within China exposed to so many foreign borders.

Xinjiang covers an area of over 1.66 million sq...[ View Details ]