Dungan people
Term used in former Soviet Union territories to refer to Muslims of Hui Chinese origin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about descendants of Chinese Muslims that left China in the 1800s. For Muslims in China that are sometimes still referred to by this name in Central Asian languages, see Hui people.
Dungan[lower-alpha 1] is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Hui origin.[6] Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang Province in Northwestern China also sometimes refer to Hui Muslims as Dungans.[7] In both China and the former Soviet republics where they reside, however, members of this ethnic group call themselves Hui because Dungans are descendants of historical Hui groups that migrated to Central Asia.
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Хуэйзў / 东干族 / Dōnggānzú | |
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Dungan girls in Sortobe, Kazakhstan | |
Total population | |
175,782 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
![]() | 76,573[1] |
![]() | 74,409[2] |
![]() | 3,028[3] |
∟ ![]() | 207 (2010)[4] |
∟ ![]() | 53 (2010)[4] |
∟ ![]() | 43 (2010)[4] |
∟ ![]() | 500 (2018)[4] |
∟ ![]() | 41 (2010)[4] |
∟ ![]() | 760 (2010)[4] |
![]() | 6,000[citation needed] |
![]() | 5,300[citation needed] |
![]() | 1,900[citation needed] |
![]() | 133[5] |
Languages | |
Dungan or Mandarin Chinese Secondary languages: | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Hui, Han people |
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In the censuses of the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Dungans (enumerated separately from Chinese) are found in Kazakhstan (36,900 according to the 1999 census), Kyrgyzstan (58,409 according to the 2009 census) and Russia (801 according to the 2002 census).[8][9][3]