Xinjiang, China: Ethnicity and Economic Development | GeoCurrents

Xinjiang, China: Ethnicity and Economic Development | GeoCurrents: "An impressive map of China’s per capita GDP by prefecture, reposted here, appeared in late 2012 on the website Skyscraper City, posted by user “Chrissib” Cicerone.  According to the map, the two poorest parts of China are in southern Gansu province, an area demographically dominated by Han Chinese, and in southwestern Xinjiang, an area demographically dominated by Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking, Sunni Muslim people."

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