Depiction of the Kyrgyz on a poster near the Niujie Mosque in Beijing (fourth from the left)
Total population
300 000 (2010)
Languages
Kyrgyz, Chinese and Russian
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Kazakhs in China, Uzbeks in China
Kyrgyz
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
柯尔克孜族
Traditional Chinese
柯爾克孜族
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Kē'ěrkèzīzú
Wade–Giles
K'ei1-erh3-k'ei4-tzu1-tsu2
Kyrgyz name
Kyrgyz
قىرعىزدار
The Kyrgyz are a Turkic ethnic group and one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. Mainly distributed in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, in the southwest of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a few Kyrgyz communities reside in neighboring Uqturpan, Aksu, Yarkant, Yengisar, Taxkorgan and Pishan. According to the fifth national census of the People's Republic of China conducted in 2000, there are 160,875 Kyrgyz people in China.[1][2][3]
^"The Kyrgyz – Children of Manas. Кыргыздар – Манастын балдары". Petr Kokaisl, Pavla Kokaislova (2009). pp.173–191. ISBN 80-254-6365-6
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in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) The Arabic script is officially used in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the People's Republic of China (China) in the Kizilsu...
group inChina. Despite the name, the Fuyu Kyrgyz language is not closely related to the Kyrgyz language, which is of Kipchak origin. The Fuyu Kyrgyz language...
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recognised by FIFA and AFC as Kyrgyz Republic, represents Kyrgyzstan in international football and is controlled by the Kyrgyz Football Union, a member of...
a sub group of the Kyrgyz people who live in Xinjiang, China. They are now Uyghur speaking and live in Akto County, Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture...
Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and China to the east and southeast. Ethnic Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's 7 million people...
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in the Kyrgyz language, and as Kirghizia and Soviet Kirghizia in the Russian language. Landlocked and mountainous, it bordered Tajikistan and China to...
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барыс, barıs). In the Kyrgyz version of the Chinese zodiac (Kyrgyz: мүчөл, müçöl) the words for the Dragon (Kyrgyz: улуу, uluu), Monkey (Kyrgyz: мечин, meçin)...
of the region, primarily the interaction of the Kyrgyz people with other Turkic, Mongolic and Chinese peoples. The government of Kyrgyzstan celebrated...
against Russian rule in Central Asia caused many Kyrgyz to later migrate to China and Afghanistan. Most Kyrgyz refugees settled in Wakhan region of Afghanistan...
that have occurred inChina. The massacres are grouped for different time periods. Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong in May 1966, with the...