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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 900 (2020 census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Russia | 900[1] |
| Languages | |
| Russian, Chukchi; formerly Chuvan | |
| Religion | |
| Russian Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Yukaghir, Koryaks, Chukchi, Evens | |
Chuvans (Russian: чуванцы) are one of the forty or so "Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East" recognized by the Russian government. Most Chuvans today live within Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the far northeast of Russia. Based on first-hand field research by several ethnographers in the 1990s, people who self-identify as Chuvans seem to do so by living in small villages and in the tundra in areas that are primarily associated with reindeer herding.