Associations to the word «Sinkiang»

Wiktionary

SINKIANG, proper noun. Alternative term for Xinjiang

Dictionary definition

SINKIANG, noun. An autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats