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Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and also claimed by the Republic of China.
Older English-language reference works often refer to the area as Chinese Turkestan, Sinkiang, East Turkestan, or Uyghuristan. More specifically, at times, the term East Turkestan only referred to the Xinjiang area south of the Tian Shan mountains, North of the Tian Shan was called Dzungaria (Zungaria).
The general region of Xinjiang has been known by many other names in
earlier times including: 西域 (Mandarin: xiyu) = 'Western Regions',
Chinese Tartary, High Tartary, East Chagatay, Mugholistan, Kashgaria,
Altishahr ('the six cities' of the Tarim), Little Bokhara and Serindia.
The name "Xinjiang", which literally means "New Frontier" , was given during the Qing Dynasty.
In the early part of the Qing Dynasty, the name "Xinjiang" was used to
refer to any area of former a Chinese empire that had been previously
lost but was regained by the Qing—for example, part of present-day
Xinjiang was known as "Western Region xinjiang", present-day Jinchuan County was known as "Jinchuan xinjiang",
etc. After 1821, the Qing changed the names of the other regained
regions, and "Xinjiang" became the name specifically of present-day
Xinjiang.
Description
Xinjiang is a large, sparsely populated area, spanning over 1.6 million km2 (comparable in size to Iran or Western Europe), which takes up about one sixth of the country's territory. Xinjiang borders the Tibet Autonomous Region and India's Leh District to the south and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the southeast, Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to the west. It administers most of Aksai Chin, a territory formally part of Kashmir's Ladakh region over which India has claimed sovereignty since 1962.
The east-west chain of the Tian Shan Mountains separate Dzungaria in the north from the Tarim Basin in the south. Dzungaria is dry steppe. The Tarim Basin is desert surrounded by oases. In the east is the Turpan Depression. In the west, the Tian Shan split, forming the Ili River valley.
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Welcome to Siberia!
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For a crowd-free ski getaway, make tracks for this vast Russian region to avail of the country's best snow.
Many people assume Siberia is an inhospitable wasteland frequented by
bears and convicts, largely due to the more than 14 million people who
were deported to the Gulag prison camps there between 1929 and 1953.
But head to the eastern slopes of Russia yourself, however, and you’ll soon find this assumption is incorrect.
Stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, Siberia
covers a whopping 5.2million square miles. It accounts for 77 per cent
of Russia’s territory but is home to only 25 per cent of its population.
Meaning? Uncrowded slopes, my friends. It takes two-and-a-half days
by train from Britain (or four-and-a- half hours by plane) to get to
Mountainous Shoria, Sheregesh, a small Belgium-size territory on the
border of the Altai and Sayan Mountains in west Siberia.
Not only does this region boast the best snow in Russia, the
population density is five people per sq km, so the lifts should be
empty. The highest peaks are Mustag and Zelanaya mountains at 1,570m and
1,270m high respectively. There are six lifts and the longest slope is
more than 4km.
Once you’ve defrosted (temperatures have been known to drop to -68°C)
sink your teeth into some hearty Pelmeni or ‘Russian dumplings’, filled
with beef or pork (or often both) and are served with sour cream or
butter and salt.
If you want to give your arteries a rest, go for a fish dish. Fish
soup, stuffed pike and, surprisingly, caviar cakes – not a delicacy here
– are plentiful.
The other place to seek out is Gladenkaya. This unpretentious ski
spot was recently hit by a fire that wiped out a lot of the forest. That
means it will be colder than usual, as the wind whips through the
valley.
After this, fighting for a place in the Chamonix lift queue should be
a doddle and if you’re desperate to avoid crowds of precocious
snowboard gangs, snobby Euro glitterati or humans in general, then
Siberia might be worth a look.
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