Just ask the Taiwanese, Uyghurs and Tibetan people. To name a few.
I thought I knew where Xinjiang was until CNN told me it was in Guangdong province.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/pjsyyv/cnn_once_chang...
Nowadays I'm not sure anymore, so I tend to add "/s" in all but most obvious cases, like this one.