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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Tur•ke•stan (tûr′kə stan′, -stän′),USA pronunciation n. - Place Namesa vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan), a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Also, Turkistan. Tur′ke•stan′i•an, adj., n. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Turkestan, Turkistan /ˌtɜːkɪˈstɑːn/ n - an extensive region of central Asia between Siberia in the north and Tibet, India, Afghanistan, and Iran in the south: formerly divided into West (Russian) Turkestan (also called Soviet Central Asia), comprising present-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the S part of Kazakhstan, and East (Chinese) Turkestan, approximating to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
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