Kharchin Mongols

Kharchin Mongols
Location of the Kharchin Mongols.
Regions with significant populations
 China593,000 (1987)[1]
 Mongolia152 (2010)[2]
Languages
Kharchin dialect of Mongolian
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Mongols, Mongols in China

The Kharchin (Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠴᠢᠨ, Харчин, qaračin; Chinese: 喀喇沁部), or Kharachin, is a subgroup of the Mongols residing mainly (and originally) in North-western Liaoning and Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. There are Khalkha-Kharchin Mongols in Dorno-Gobi Province (Kharchin Örtöö was part of the province during Qing rule) and in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

They are descended directly from the Kharchin tümen of the Northern Yuan dynasty. The Kharchin tümen consisted of:

  • Yünshebü tümen
  • Southern branch of Doyan Uriankhai
  • Eastern branch of Mongoljin-Tümed

The eastern Tümed (Chaoyang county, Liaoning) and Mongoljin (Fuxin county, Liaoning) trıbes were also categorized as Kharchin traditionally.

  1. ^ ethnologue.com information
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-15. Retrieved 2011-07-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)