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Also known as Yurak, Yurak Samoyed, Nenec, Nenetsy, Nentse

The Nenets (; ), in the past also called 'Samoyeds' or 'Yuraks', are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to the Russian Arctic, in the Russian Far North. According to the latest census in 2021, there were 49,646 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District stretching along the coastline of the Arctic Ocean near the Arctic Circle between Kola and Taymyr peninsulas. The Nenets people speak either the Tundra or Forest Nenets languages. In the Russian Federation they have a status of Indigen

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The Nenets are an indigenous ethnic group native to the Russian Arctic, traditionally living in regions along the Arctic Ocean coast, with approximately 49,646 people recorded in the 2021 census. They matter as a distinct Samoyedic people with their own languages and cultures, recognized as indigenous to Russia, though their populations and traditional ways of life face challenges in the modern world.

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Key facts

Ethnic group.group
Nenets
Ethnic group.image
250px
Ethnic group.image_caption
A Nenets family in the Brekhovskie Islands, 1913
Ethnic group.population
50,000
Ethnic group.region1
Russia Arkhangelsk Oblast: ∟ Tyumen Oblast: ∟
Ethnic group.pop1
49,646
Ethnic group.region4
Ukraine
Ethnic group.pop4
217
Ethnic group.langs
Nenets, Russian
Ethnic group.rels
Shamanism, Animism, Russian Orthodoxy
Ethnic group.related
Enets, Nganasans, Selkups
Ethnic group.native_name
Ненэй, ненэче

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
ethnic group
Native language
Nenets
Population
44640
Image
Nenets people near Dudinka (Ru200008050079).jpg
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Commons category
Nenets people
topic's main category
Category:Nenets people
language used
Nenets
different from
Enets
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