The Uyghurs, a Turkic people comprising a major part of the population of the Xinjang-Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China, also have sizable communities in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, especially in Kazakhstan, where they numbered 220,000 in 1999 (altogether the Uyghur population in the newly independent states numbers more than 300,000)...
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