Uyghuristan

Uyghuristan, officially the Uyghuristan-East Turkestan Republic, is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. Uyghuristan borders the countries of, , , , , , , , , and. The capital is and is also the largest city. Uyghuristan is part of the Turkic speaking world, as well as a member of the Turkic Council.

Older English works refer to Uyghuristan as Chinese Turkestan, East Turkestan, East Turkistan, Sinkiang, and Xinjiang. Uyghuristan is divided into the in the north and the  in the south. 9.7 percent of Uyghuristan's territory is fit for human habitation.

Uyghuristan is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Organisation of Turkic States, the Türksoy community and the United Nations.

Government
The Uyghur government is a democratic republic, with the president as head of state and the prime minister as the head of government.

Economy


Uyghuristan's economy is the second largest overall economy in behind, but the fourth largest per capita after Kazakhstan,  and. The country possesses oil reserves as well as numerous mineral and metal deposits. It also has considerable agricultural production thanks to the application of advanced irrigation and water conservation technologies. The independence from the USSR in 1991 and the failure to establish good relations with China, which was able to source its industrial and agricultural resources elsewhere, resulted in a sharp decline of the economy, with the steepest annual decline occurring in 1994. In 1995-1997, the pace of the government programmes of economic reform and privatisation quickened, resulting in a substantial shift of assets from the public into the private sector. The beginning of the construction of oil pipelines through the Ala Pass into Kazakhstan and Russia in 1996 increased prospects for substantially larger oil exports, helping to stabilise the Uyghur economy somewhat in the later part of the 1990s. Uyghuristan's economy turned downward once again in 1998 with a 2.5% decline in GDP growth due to lower oil prices and the in. A bright spot in 1999 was the recovery of international petroleum prices, which, combined with a well-timed ṣotre devaluation and an exceptionally good bumper grain harvest, pulled the economy out of recession.

The GDP per capita shrank by nearly 26% during the 1990s. In the 2000s by contrast, the Uyghuristani economy grew sharply, aided by increased prices on world markets for some of Uyghuristan's leading exports — namely oil, metals, and cereals. The GDP grew by an unprecedented 9.6% in 2000, compared to only 1.7% in the previous year. In 2006, extremely high GDP growth had been sustained, and grew by 10.6%. Business with Russia and neighbouring post-Soviet, as well as restored trade and normalised relations with the People's Republic of China in 2001, have helped to propel continued economic growth. The economy has since slowed down following the beginning in 2013, sparked by falling oil prices, but has continued to grow at a slower pace.