Area: 1/6 China
Covering 1,660,000 square km, Xinjiang is the largest provincial region of China, covering an area three times the size of France, nine times the size of Guangdong province or 100 times the size of Beijing. Its capital Urumqi lies in the centre of the Asian continent and is the farthest city from the sea in the world. (Source: Tianshannet)
