The lowest temperature in Xinjiang in winter is -52.3℃.
1. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, referred to as "Xin", with its capital Urumqi, located in northwest China, is one of China's five ethnic minority autonomous regions. With an area of ??1.66 million square kilometers, it is the largest provincial administrative region in China by land area, accounting for one-sixth of China's total land area. At the end of 2019, the permanent population was 25.2322 million.
2. Xinjiang is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, with a land border of more than 5,600 kilometers. It borders eight countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, India, and Afghanistan. In history, It was an important passage on the ancient Silk Road and is now the only place where the second "Eurasian Continental Bridge" must pass. Its strategic location is very important.
3. In 60 BC, the central government of the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Region Protectorate, and Xinjiang officially became part of China's territory. In 1884, the Qing government established a province in Xinjiang. Xinjiang was peacefully liberated in 1949. On October 1, 1955, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was officially established. As of the end of 2019, Xinjiang currently governs 4 prefecture-level cities, 5 regions, 5 autonomous prefectures, and 10 autonomous regions directly under the jurisdiction of county-level cities.
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Xinjiang was called the Western Regions in ancient times. The term Western Regions specifically refers to the geographical scope of Xinjiang that lasted from ancient times to the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the mid-Qing Dynasty.
The name Xinjiang has another meaning. After Zuo Zongtang regained Xinjiang from Aguba in 1878, the Tsarist Russian invaders were also forced to return the Ili area in 1882. Therefore, Zuo Zongtang advocated the establishment of provinces in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. In his memorial to the Qing emperor, he described Xinjiang as "a place forced by other people, and a newly returned homeland."