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 of Turpan (“tur-pin”). Project 596 succeeded at this region’s site of (*) Lop Nur, near the end of its Tarim (“TAH-reem”) river. This region’s 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 were sent to “re-education camps." For 10 points, Ürümqi ("OO-room-chee") is the capital of what autonomous region of China inhabited by Uyghurs ■END■
ANSWER: Xīnjiāng [or Sinkiang; accept Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region or XUAR or Xīnjiāng Wéiwú'ěr Zìzhìqū or Shinjang Uyghur Aptonom Rayoni; accept Uyghurstan until “Uyghurs” is read; accept Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; prompt on Turpan Depression before “Turpan”; prompt on Dzungaria or Dzungarian Basin before “Dzungarian”; prompt on the Tiān Shān or Altai Mountains before mention; prompt on the Taklamakan Desert or East Turkestan or Northwest China]
<Modern World - Geography, Charan Shreekumar> | VAULT II Packet 08
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