Khoid

Khoid
	Location of the Khoid in the Oirat Confederation
Regions with significant populations
Mongolia	5 000
China	15 000
Kalmykia	a few thousands?
Languages
	Oirat dialect
Religion
	Tibetan Buddhism, Mongolian shamanism
Related ethnic groups
	Mongols, especially Oirats

The Khoid, also Khoyd or Khoit (Chinese: 辉特; "Northern ones/people") people are an Oirat subgroup of the Choros clan. Once one of largest tribes of the Oirats.

Amursana was a Khoid Oirat
Partisans of Amursana, in the Battle of Khorgos against Qing China (1758)

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Хойты census of 1999.

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Regions with significant populations
Location of the Khoid in the Oirat Confederation
Mongolia	5 000^[1]
China	15 000
Kalmykia	a few thousands?
Languages
Oirat dialect
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism, Mongolian shamanism
Related ethnic groups
Mongols, especially Oirats

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