Editing Turpan (section)

== Demographics ==
According to the 2015 government census,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xjtj.gov.cn/sjcx/tjnj_3415/2016xjtjnj/rkjy/201707/t20170714_539450.html|script-title=zh:新疆维吾尔自治区统计局|trans-title=Statistic Bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region|date=14 July 2017|access-date=1 November 2017|archive-date=11 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011101904/http://www.xjtj.gov.cn/sjcx/tjnj_3415/2016xjtjnj/rkjy/201707/t20170714_539450.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> the city of Turpan had a population of 651,853 (population density 15.99 inh./km<sup>2</sup>). [[Islam]] is largest religion. The breakdown by [[List of ethnic groups in China|ethnicity]] was as follows:

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=== Language ===
There is Chinese influence in the vocabulary of [[Uyghur dialects|Uyghur dialect]] in Turpan.<ref name="Yakup2005">{{cite book|author=Abdurishid Yakup|title=The Turfan Dialect of Uyghur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dk12I01qTPUC&q=turfan+mixing&pg=PA174|year=2005|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-05233-7|page=174}}</ref>

=== Assimilation ===
Turpan Uyghurs have more Han Chinese features and looks than Uyghurs elsewhere and this is suggested to be due to intermarriage between Han Chinese and Uyghurs in the past according to the locals.<ref name="Finley2013">{{cite book|author=Joanne N. Smith Finley|title=The Art of Symbolic Resistance: Uyghur Identities and Uyghur-Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQBBAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA309|date=9 September 2013|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-25678-1|page=309}}</ref> Due to physical features found in Uyghurs in Turpan it was claimed that Uyghurs married slaves sent to Turpan's Lukchun area by the Qing according to the Manchu Ji Dachun.<ref name="RudelsonRudelson1997">{{cite book|author1=Justin Jon Rudelson|author2=Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson|title=Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MT2D_0_eBPQC&pg=PA141|year=1997|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-10786-0|pages=141–}}</ref><ref name="RudelsonRudelson1997 2">{{cite book|author1=Justin Jon Rudelson|author2=Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson|title=Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LN40oBDqH0C&pg=PA141|year=1997|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-10787-7|pages=141–}}</ref>