Uighur

Central Asian ethnicity

Uighur refers to a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, primarily the Xinjiang region of northwestern China.

Also spelled Uyghur.

The Uighurs are predominantly Muslim and speak a Turkic language.

Since 2017, international attention has focused on Chinese government policies toward Uighurs, including mass detention camps and cultural suppression that some governments have designated genocide.

geography

Xinjiang

Chinese autonomous region

Turkic

Kazakh

Central Asian ethnicity

  • KyrgyzCentral Asian Turkic people
  • UzbekCentral Asian Turkic speaker
  • TurkmenPerson from Turkmenistan

Tatar · Azerbaijani · Turkish · Ottoman · Chagatai · Seljuk

persecution

detention camps

Facilities for confining groups

human rights · ethnic cleansing · genocide · forced labor · reeducation · assimilation · diaspora · exile · refugees · asylum

culture

atlas

Bound collection of charts

  • poloMounted mallet sport
  • shashlikSkewered grilled meat dish
  • bazaarOpen-air merchant district

mosque · minaret · carpet · jade · pomegranate · tea · handicrafts · calligraphy · embroidery · folklore

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ethnic/cultural identity in china

UighurHan

China's largest ethnicity

Han Chinese · Mandarin Chinese

religious-cultural tradition in central/east asia

UighurTibetan

Of a Himalayan region

Mongol · Buddhist

religious-cultural identity in Central/East Asia

UighurTibetan Buddhist

Himalayan dharma practitioner

Confucian · Taoist

Family

Uighurs

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