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The Uyghur (also spelled Uygur, Uighur, Uigur, Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known by its controversial name Uyghurstan or East Turkistan) in the People's Republic of China.
There are Uyghur diasporic communities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Germany and Turkey and smaller ones in Pakistan, Russia and Taoyuan County of Hunan province in south-central Mainland China. Uyghur...
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