Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of northwestern China on the upper Yellow River, home to a large population of the Hui, a predominantly Muslim Chinese ethnic group. Its capital is Yinchuan.
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Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was later separated from Gansu in 1958 and reconstituted as an autonomous region for the Hui people, one of the 56 officially recognised ethnicities in China.
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