Turkestan
/ˌtɜːkɪˈstɑːn/(亦作Turkistan)
- a region of central Asia between the Caspian Sea and the Gobi Desert, inhabited mainly by Turkic peoples. It is divided by the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains into eastern Turkestan, now the Xinjiang autonomous region of China, and western Turkestan, which comprises present-day Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.土耳其斯坦（里海和戈壁沙漠之间的中亚地区, 主要为操突厥语的各民族居住地; 该地区被帕米尔山脉和天山山脉分隔成东土耳其斯坦, 即现在的中国新疆自治区和西土耳其斯坦, 即现在的土库曼斯坦, 哈萨克斯坦, 乌兹别克斯坦, 塔吉克斯坦和吉尔吉斯斯坦）。