DZUNGARIA

or ZUNGARIA, a Chinese territory in Central Asia, stretching from about 43° to 48° N. lat. and from about 82° to 86° E. long. It has an area of 147,950 sq. miles, and pop. 600,000. It is administratively connected with Kuldja, and since the surrender of Kuldja by the Ru ians in 1880 is again under Chinese rule. Dzungaria, once the centre of an independent empire, was first conquered by the Chinese in 1757. E (1/5) e