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” bound this region’s city (-5[1])of Turpan (“tur-pin”). Project 596 succeeded at this region’s (-5[1])site of (*) Lop Nur, near the end of its Tarim (0[1]-5[1])(“TAH-reem”) river. This region’s (0[1])Dzungarian (“Zoon-gar-e-ahn") Basin is bounded by the Altai and Tiān Shān Mountains. In the 2010s, minority residents of this region’s city of Kashgar (-5[1])were sent to “re-education camps." (-5[1])For 10 points, Ürümqi ("OO-room-chee") is the capital of what autonomous region of China inhabited by Uyghurs ■END■ (10[2])

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