Xinjiang is an autonomous region (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) of the People's Republic of China. Xinjiang is 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 has 13 ethnic groups and 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.
Xinjiang's Capital city Urumqi aiming to become a key city in west China and the international commerce and trade center in central and west Asia.
