Xinjiang

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Type Political Subdivision & Region
Usage Chinese, Afrikaans, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kurdish, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog
Scripts 新疆(Chinese)
Pronounced Pron. SHEEN-CHYAHNG(Chinese)
 SHIN-JYANG(English)
 KSEEN-JYAHNG(French)
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Other Forms FormsXīnjiāng (Chinese)
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Meaning & History

Means "new frontier" from Chinese 新 (xīn) meaning "new" and 疆 (jiāng) meaning "boundary, border, frontier". This is the name of an autonomous region in western China as well as a historical region in Central Asia.