Since the unravelling of the Soviet Union and the birth of the Central Asian republics, the vast swathe of China known as the Xinjiang Autonomous Region has seemed a cartographic anomaly.

• 自从前苏联解体之后，中亚各国纷纷独立成为共和制国家，而新疆自治区---中国这片广大地域，在地图上看起来与周边似乎有些不协调。