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Turkic is generally used to characterize the five Central Asian countries that were formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These are: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan. However, it also refers to the language, culture, and traditions of all people of Turkish origin. The area that roughly covers these five countries has been historically called Western Turkistan whereas Xinjiang, a province of China with a predominant Uighur population, has been referred to as Eastern Turkistan. Tajikistan is sometimes also grouped together with these Turkic countries; however, Tajiks are descendants of the Persian-speaking peoples of Transoxiana and hence are ethnically and linguistically more Persian than Turkic.