Daur people

ethnic group

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Vinony's link graph records 453 inbound references to Daur people, and connects out to Mongols, Dongxiang people and Nen River.

Vinony files it under Accuracy disputes from March 2026, Dauriya and Ethnic groups officially recognized by China.

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Key facts

China: 132,299
Mongolia: 3,000

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: ethnic group
Part of: Mongolic peoples
Country: China
Population: 132299
Image: Daur woman smiling.jpg

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described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
topic's main category: Category:Daur people
Commons category: Daur people
language used: Daur

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Encyclopedic overview

The Daurs, Dagur, Daghur, or Dahur (Dagur:ᡩᠠᡤᡠᠷDaure; Khalkha Mongolian: Дагуур, Daguur; simplified Chinese: 达斡尔族; traditional Chinese: 達斡爾族; pinyin: Dáwò'ěr zú; Russian: Дауры, Daury) are a Mongolic people originally native to Dauriya and now predominantly located in Northeast China (and Siberia, Russia, in the past). The Daur form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized in the People's Republic of China. They numbered 132,299 according to the latest census (2020) and most of them live in Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner in Hulun Buir, northeastern Inner Mongolia and Meilisi Daur District in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, Northeast China. Some Daur people also live near Tacheng in Xinjiang.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daur people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.