Dungan people
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Dungan[lower-alpha 1] is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Hui origin.[6] Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang Province in Northwestern China also sometimes refer to Hui Muslims as Dungans.[7] In both China and the former Soviet republics where they reside, however, members of this ethnic group call themselves Hui because Dungans are descendants of historical Hui groups that migrated to Central Asia.
Хуэйзў / 回族 / Hueizû | |
|---|---|
Dungan girls in Sortobe, Kazakhstan | |
| Total population | |
| 175,782 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Kyrgyzstan (2021 census) | 76,573[1] |
 Kazakhstan (2019 census) | 74,409[2] |
 China | 13,000 (?) |
 Russia (2010 census) | 1,651[3] |
∟  Altai Republic | 1,186 |
∟  Altai Krai | 180 |
∟  Tuva | 100 |
∟  Kemerovo Oblast | 90 |
∟  Krasnoyarsk Krai | 75 |
∟  Novosibirsk Oblast | 100 |
∟  Khakassia | 30 |
 Tajikistan | 6,000 |
 Mongolia | 5,300 |
 Uzbekistan | 1,900 |
 Ukraine | 133[4] |
| Languages | |
| Dungan or Mandarin Chinese Secondary languages: | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Hui, Han people | |
In the censuses of the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Dungans (enumerated separately from Chinese) are found in Kazakhstan (36,900 according to the 1999 census), Kyrgyzstan (58,409 according to the 2009 census) and Russia (801 according to the 2002 census).[8][9][3]