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Хакас | |
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  Top: Khakas ethnic flag Bottom: Khakas in Khakassia and neighboring areas | |
| Total population | |
| 80,000 (est.) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Russia (primarily Khakassia) | |
 Russia
| 72,959[1] |
 Ukraine | 162[2] |
 China (Heilongjiang) | About 1,500 |
| Languages | |
| Khakas, Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Orthodox Christianity (Russian Orthodoxy) Also shamanism (Tengrism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Chulyms, Kumandins, Siberian Tatars, Shors, Teleuts, Tofalar, Tuvans, Dukha, Soyot, Fuyu Kyrgyz, Kyrgyz, Kamasins | |
The Khakas[a][b] are a Turkic indigenous people of Siberia, who live in the republic of Khakassia, Russia. They speak the Khakas language.
The Khakhassian people are direct descendants of various ancient cultures that have inhabited southern Siberia, including the Andronovo culture, Samoyedic peoples, the Tagar culture, and the Yenisei Kyrgyz culture,[3][4][5] although some populations traditionally called Khakhassian are not related to Khakhassians or any other ethnic group present in the area.[6]
- ^ "Окончательные итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года". Archived from the original on 3 August 2011. (All Russian census, 2010)
- ^ State statistics committee of Ukraine - National composition of population, 2001 census (Ukrainian)
- ^ Khar’kov 2011, pp. 404–405
- ^ Carl Skutsch (7 November 2013). Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Routledge. pp. 705–. ISBN 978-1-135-19388-1.
- ^ Paul Friedrich (14 January 1994). Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia, China. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-1810-6.
- ^ Shtygasheva, Khamina. "Genetic diversity of the Khakass gene pool: Subethnic differentiation and the structure of Y-chromosome haplogroups".
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