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Volga Tatars
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Not to be confused with Crimean Tatars.
The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars (Tatar: татарлар, romanized: tatarlar; Russian: татары, romanized: tatary) are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of Eastern European Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Their native language is Tatar, a language of the Turkic language family. The predominant religion is Sunni Islam, followed by Orthodox Christianity.
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татарлар | |
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Total population | |
c. 6.2 million | |
Regions with significant populations | |
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| 5,310,649[1] |
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![]() | 600-700[10] |
Languages | |
Tatar, Russian | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Sunni Islam[11][12] with Orthodox Christian[13] and irreligious minority | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Bashkirs, Chuvash, Nogais, Crimean Tatars[14][15] |
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