Tatars
umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups in Asia and Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tatars refer to a number of Turkic-speaking peoples,[7] which include (but are not limited to) the Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Siberian Tatars. But do not include the Crimean Tatars.[8][9] Most Tatars live in Russia (forming the majority in Tatarstan), as well as in countries as Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
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Ayaz Iskhaki • Ruslan Chagaev Şihabetdin Märcani • Pyotr Gavrilov Gabdulkhay Akhatov • Dinara Safina • Diniyar Bilyaletdinov • Ğabdulla Tuqay | |
Total population | |
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ca. 6.8 million[source?] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Russia :
| 5,310,649[1] |
Uzbekistan | 467,829[2] |
Kazakhstan | 203,371[3] |
Ukraine | 73,304[4] |
Turkmenistan | 36,355[5] |
Kyrgyzstan | 31,500[source?] |
Tajikistan | 19,000[source?] |
China | 5,064[6] |
Languages | |
Tatar, Russian | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam majority, Russian Orthodox minority |
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Crimean Tatars live in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
Smaller minorities of Tatars live in Israel, France, Canada, Australia, the United States, Finland, and Japan.
The Tatars mostly practice Sunni Islam.
Their closest relatives are the Bashkirs, and they are also related to the Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Chuvash people, and the Turkish people.