Term used in former Soviet Union territories to refer to Muslims of Hui Chinese origin
This article is about descendants of Chinese Muslims that left China in the 1800s. For Muslims in China that are sometimes still referred to by this name in Central Asian languages, see Hui people.
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Dungan people
Хуэйзў / 回族 / Hueizû
Dungan girls in Sortobe, Kazakhstan
Total population
175,782
Regions with significant populations
Kyrgyzstan (2021 census)
76,573[1]
Kazakhstan (2019 census)
74,409[2]
Russia (2021 census)
3,028[3]
∟ Altai Krai
207 (2010)[4]
∟ Penza Oblast
53 (2010)[4]
∟ Moscow
43 (2010)[4]
∟ Saint Petersburg
500 (2018)[4]
∟ Lipetsk Oblast
41 (2010)[4]
∟ Saratov Oblast
760 (2010)[4]
Tajikistan
6,000
Mongolia
5,300
Uzbekistan
1,900
Ukraine
133[5]
Languages
Dungan or Mandarin Chinese Secondary languages:
Russian
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Hui, Han people
Dungan[a] is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Hui origin.[6] Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang Province in Northwestern China also sometimes refer to Hui Muslims as Dungans.[7] In both China and the former Soviet republics where they reside, however, members of this ethnic group call themselves Hui because Dungans are descendants of historical Hui groups that migrated to Central Asia.
In the censuses of the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Dungans (enumerated separately from Chinese) are found in Kazakhstan (36,900 according to the 1999 census), Kyrgyzstan (58,409 according to the 2009 census) and Russia (801 according to the 2002 census).[8][9][3]
^"Total population by nationality (assessment at the beginning of the year, people)". Bureau of Statistics of Kyrgyzstan. 2021.
^"The population of the Republic of Kazakhstan by individual ethnic groups at the beginning of 2019". Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
^ ab"1. НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ СОСТАВ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ" [1. NATIONAL COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION] (in Russian). 6 October 2020.
^ abcdefCite error: The named reference ЭтноЯз.2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001". Ukraine Census 2001. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
^David Trilling (20 April 2010). "Kyrgyzstan Eats: A Dungan Feast in Naryn". EURASIANET.org.
^"UNPO: East Turkestan: Strict Control of China's Uighur Muslims Continues". Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization. 16 August 2006. Retrieved 12 March 2020. However, the authorities' control over Dungan mosques is less strict than over mosques used by Uighurs, a Turkic people mainly found in Xinjiang but also in Central Asian states. (The Dungans are a Chinese Muslim people also found in Central Asian states.)
^"Демографический ежегодник Кыргызской Республики: 2009–2013.-Б: Нацстатком Кырг. Респ., 2014:-320с. ISBN 978-9967-26-837-1" (PDF). Bishkek: National Committee on Statistics. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
^Aleksandr Nikolaevich Alekseenko (Александр Николаевич Алексеенко), "Republic in the Mirror of the Population Census" («Республика в зеркале переписей населения») Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniia. 2001, No. 12. pp. 58–62.
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Kyrgyzstan (2021 census)
Kazakhstan (2019 census)
Russia (2021 census)
Altai Krai
Penza Oblast
Moscow
Saint Petersburg
Lipetsk Oblast
Saratov Oblast
Tajikistan
Mongolia
Uzbekistan
Ukraine