Turkestan
Turkestan refers to the region of Central Asia where the Turkic ethnic group lives today. The original meaning is Persian and Turkic lands. Turkistan is comprised of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, which is included in Western Turkistan, and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China (also Uighurstan), also known as East Turkestan. ...