Packet 8: Tossup 6

A “Production and Construction Corps” named for this region has been tasked with countering the “Three Evils.” During the 1962 Yi–Ta incident, people fled this region through the Ili (“EE-lee”) and Tacheng (“Tah-chung”) prefectures. (-5[1])Red sandstone hills called “Flaming Mountains” bound this region’s city of Turpan (-5[1])(“tur-pin”). Project 596 (15[1])succeeded (15[1])at this region’s site of (*) Lop Nur, near the end of its Tarim (“TAH-reem”) river. (-5[1])This region’s Dzungarian (10[1])(“Zoon-gar-e-ahn") Basin is bounded by the Altai and Tiān Shān Mountains. (-5[1])In the 2010s, minority residents (10[1])of this region’s city of Kashgar were sent to “re-education camps." For 10 points, Ürümqi ("OO-room-chee") is the capital of what autonomous region of China inhabited (10[1])by Uyghurs ■END■ (10[3])

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