China: Kazakh yurt near Tian Chi (Heaven Lake) in the Tian Shan (Heavenly Mountains), Xinjiang Province. The word yurt is originally from a Turkic word referring to the imprint left in the ground by a moved yurt, and by extension, sometimes a person's homeland, kinsmen, or feudal appanage. The term came to be used in reference to the physical tent-like dwellings only in other languages. The Kazakhs (also Kazaks) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia, and Mongolia).

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