pueblo janti
Also known as Khanty, Ostyaks, Khanti, Khande, Kantek
thumb|200px|right|Khanty family standing in front of a chum (tent)|chum, their traditional tent thumb|200px|Most Khanty people live in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug in western [[Siberia]] The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2021 Census, 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in
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The Khanty are an Indigenous people of western Siberia, primarily living in Russia's Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, where their language holds co-official status alongside Russian. With approximately 31,467 people identified as Khanty in the 2021 Census, they represent a distinct Ugric cultural and linguistic group whose traditional way of life, including practices like living in chum (traditional tents), reflects their historical presence in the region known as Yugra.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Khanty
- Ethnic group.image
- Ostyak.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Khanty man in Tomsk, 2006.
- Ethnic group.population
- 33,000
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 31,467 (2021)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 100 (2001)
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 429 (2009)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism
- Ethnic group.langs
- Khanty, Russian
- Ethnic group.related
- Mansi
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