Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "اصل چین" in Urdu language version.
Used broadly to mean China within the Great Wall, with its eighteen historic provinces. Divisible into two major, sharply contrasting regions, شمالی اور جنوبی چین۔ The dependencies on the north and west – Manchuria (now usually referred to as شمال مشرقی چین)، Mongolia، Xizang (Tibet)، and Xinjiang or Chinese Turkestan – were known in the imperial era as Outer China.