Turkic people of Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Ethnic group
Kazakhs Қазақтар Qazaqtar
Kazakhstan 13,965,938 (2023)[ 1] China 1,562,518 (2020)[ 2] Uzbekistan 821,172 (2023)[ 3] Russia 591,970 (2021)[ 4] Mongolia 120,999 (2020)[ 5] Kyrgyzstan 28,244 (2022)[ 6] United States 21,913 (2022)[ 7] Iran 10,000 (2024)[ 8] Turkey 10,000 (2009)[ 9] Canada 6,600 (2011)[ 10] Czech Republic 5,639 (2017)[ 11] Ukraine 5,526 (2001)[ 12] United Kingdom 5,432 (2011)[ 13] United Arab Emirates 5,000 (2015)[ 14] Portugal 3,000 (2017)[ 15] Australia 2,430 (2023)[ 16] Italy 1,924 (2022)[ 17] Austria 1,685[ 18] Belarus 1,355 (2009)[ 19] Germany 1,000 (2016)[ 20] Afghanistan 200 (2021)[ 21] Philippines 178–215 (2022)[ 22] Kazakh Predominantly Islam , minorities practicing Tengrism [ 23] and Shamanism [ 24] Karakalpak , Nogai , Kyrgyz
The Kazakhs (Kazakh : қазақтар , qazaqtar , قازاقتار , [qazaq'tar] ⓘ ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe . There are Kazakh communities in Kazakhstan 's border regions in Russia , northern Uzbekistan , northwestern China (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture ), western Mongolia (Bayan-Ölgii Province ) and Iran (Golestan province ).[ 25] The Kazakhs arose from the merging of various medieval tribes of Turkic and Mongolic origin in the 15th century.[ 26] [ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] [ 31]
Kazakh identity was shaped following the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465, when following the disintegration of the Turkified state of Golden Horde , several tribes under the rule of the sultans Janibek and Kerei departed from the Khanate of Abu'l-Khayr Khan in hopes of forming a powerful khanate of their own.
The term Kazakh is used to refer to ethnic Kazakhs, while the term Kazakhstani refers to all citizens of Kazakhstan, regardless of ethnicity.[ 32] [ 33]
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