歷史今天:1955年新疆維吾爾自治區成立(9.30)

【英文原文】

Xinjiang is a large, sparsely populated area, spanning over 1.6 million km2 (comparable in size to Iran or Western Europe), which takes up about one sixth of the country's territory. Xinjiang borders the Tibet Autonomous Region and India's Leh District to the south and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the southeast, Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to the west.

The east-west chain of the Tian Shan Mountains separate Dzungaria in the north from the Tarim Basin in the south. Dzungaria is dry steppe. The Tarim Basin is desert surrounded by oases. In the east is the Turfan Depression. In the west, the Tian Shan split, forming the Ili River valley..

【中文譯文】


新疆是一個地域廣闊，人口稀少的地區，面積爲160多萬平方公里（相當於伊朗或西歐的面積），約佔國土總面積的六分之一。新疆的南面是西藏自治區和印度的列城地區，東南是青海和甘肅兩省，東面是蒙古，北面是俄羅斯，哈薩克斯坦，吉爾吉斯斯坦，塔吉克斯坦，西面則是阿富汗，巴基斯坦和印度。

東西走向的天山山脈將準噶爾盆地和塔里木盆地分隔開來。準噶爾是乾草原。塔里木盆地是一片綠洲包圍的沙漠。在東部，是吐魯番盆地。在西部，是天山分裂形成的伊犁河谷。