Khanty

Khanty
Khanty from the Ob river
Total population
31,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia)
 Russia31,467 (2021)[2]
 Ukraine100 (2001)[3]
Languages
Khanty, Russian
Religion
Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism
Related ethnic groups
Mansi
Khanty man in Tomsk, 2006.
Khanty family standing in front of a chum, their traditional tent
Most Khanty people live in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug in western Siberia

The Khanty (Khanty: ханти, romanized: hanti), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (Russian: остяки), 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,[4] 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of whom 19,568 were living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 9,985—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 495 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 109 lived in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

  1. ^ "Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 1. Национальный состав населения" [Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 1. National composition of the population.]. rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. ^ "Росстат — Всероссийская перепись населения 2020". rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  3. ^ "National composition of population". Census (in Ukrainian). UA: State statistics committee of Ukraine. 2001.
  4. ^ "Национальный состав населения". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 30 December 2022.