кыргыздар, kırgızdar, قیرغیزدار | |
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![]() A young Kyrgyz kid with traditional hat, near Karakul, Xinjiang. | |
Total population | |
c. 5 million[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
![]() | |
4,587,430 | |
![]() | 250,000 |
![]() | 202,500 |
![]() | 103,422 |
![]() | 62,000 |
![]() | 23,274 |
![]() | 6,607 |
![]() | 5,100 |
![]() | 4,000 |
![]() | 2,000 |
![]() | 2,000 |
![]() | 1,600 |
![]() | 1,500 |
![]() | 1,130 |
![]() | 1,128 |
![]() | 1,100 |
![]() | 900 |
Languages | |
Kyrgyz, Russian, Chinese | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Sunni Islam[2][3]
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^a At the 2009 census, ethnic Kyrgyz constituted roughly 71% of population of Kyrgyzstan (5.36 million). |
The Kyrgyz people are a Turkic ethnic people native to Kyrgyztan, Uzbekistan, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. They also live in Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey. Most of them are Sunni Muslims. They speak the Kyrgyz language.