Khanty
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For other uses, see Khanty (disambiguation).
The Khanty (Khanty: ханти, hanti), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (Russian: остяки), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2021 Census,[4] 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of whom 19,568 were living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 9,985—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 495 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 109 lived in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
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Total population | |
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31,000[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia) | |
Russia | 31,467 (2021)[2] |
Ukraine | 100 (2001)[3] |
Languages | |
Khanty, Russian | |
Religion | |
Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Mansi |
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