China Geography Stats
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Xinjiang on Han language literally means „new frontier“. Since 1949 Xinjiang has been a part of Uighur Autonomous Region of PR of China, and it lays in the country’s far northwest. Xinjiang is China’s largest administrative region. It spans more than 1.6 million sq km and it is almost similar in size with its north-eastern neighbour Mongolia.
Demographically, with its 21.8 million citizens, it is more likely the same size of its north-western neighbour Kazakhstan’s 17.7 million citizens and also sparsely populated with its 13/sq km.
For centuries, Xinjiang is home of the large ethnic Uyghur Muslim population of about 45%, yet still there are almost the same percentage of Han Chinese of about more than 40% which maintains a growing trend. The relations between two communities, particularly in recent times, were not always the best, which was caused by Uighur’s sense of unequal opportunities and marginalization which produced tensions that tend to escalate even very far from Xinjiang in the form of terrorist attacks like that of Kunming (Yunan province) and also before that, in Chinese capital of Beijing.
Definitions
- Area > Comparative: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America.
- Area > Land: Total land area in square kilometres
- Area > Land > Per capita: Total land area in square kilometres Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
- Area > Total: Total area in square kilometers
- Area > Water: Total water area in square kilometers
- Average precipitation in depth > Mm per year: Average precipitation in depth (mm per year). Average precipitation is the long-term average in depth (over space and time) of annual precipitation in the country. Precipitation is defined as any kind of water that falls from clouds as a liquid or a solid.
- Climate: A brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year.
- Coastline: The total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
- Geographic coordinates: This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the purpose of finding the approximate geographic center of an entity and is based on the Gazetteer of Conventional Names, Third Edition, August 1988, US Board on Geographic Names and on other sources.
- Land area > Sq. km: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes."
- Land area > Square miles: Country land area.
- Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
- Natural resources: A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
- Surface area > Sq. km: Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways.
- Terrain: A brief description of the topography
SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Food and Agriculture Organization; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Food and Agriculture Organisation, electronic files and web site.; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; World Development Indicators database
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Xinjiang on Han language literally means „new frontier“. Since 1949 Xinjiang has been a part of Uighur Autonomous Region of PR of China, and it lays in the country’s far northwest. Xinjiang is China’s largest administrative region. It spans more than 1.6 million sq km and it is almost similar in size with its north-eastern neighbour Mongolia.
Demographically, with its 21.8 million citizens, it is more likely the same size of its north-western neighbour Kazakhstan’s 17.7 million citizens and also sparsely populated with its 13/sq km.
For centuries, Xinjiang is home of the large ethnic Uyghur Muslim population of about 45%, yet still there are almost the same percentage of Han Chinese of about more than 40% which maintains a growing trend. The relations between two communities, particularly in recent times, were not always the best, which was caused by Uighur’s sense of unequal opportunities and marginalization which produced tensions that tend to escalate even very far from Xinjiang in the form of terrorist attacks like that of Kunming (Yunan province) and also before that, in Chinese capital of Beijing.
Posted on 21 May 2014
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