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Dungans

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Also known as Dungan people, Dungan

ethnic group

Key facts

Kyrgyzstan 2021 census
76,573
Kazakhstan 2019 census
74,409
Russia 2021 census
3,028
Altai krai
207 (2010)
Penza oblast
53 (2010)
Moscow
43 (2010)
Saint petersburg
500 (2018)
Lipetsk oblast
41 (2010)
Saratov oblast
760 (2010)

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Encyclopedic overview

Dungan is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslims of Hui origin. Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang also sometimes refer to Hui Muslims as Dungans. The Dungans in Central Asia, however, refer themselves by their endonym Hui (Dungan: Хуэй).

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).

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

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