Round 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. Red sandstone hills called “Flaming Mountains” (-5[1])bound this region’s city of Turpan (-5[1])(“tur-pin”). Project 596 succeeded at this region’s site of (*) Lop Nur, near the (10[1])end of its (-5[2])Tarim (“TAH-reem”) river. This region’s Dzungarian (“Zoon-gar-e-ahn") Basin (0[1])is bounded by the Altai and Tiān Shān Mountains. In the 2010s, (-5[1])minority residents 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 (10[1])China inhabited by Uyghurs ■END■ (10[3])

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