Tatars

Tatars
tatarlar / татарлар

Ayaz Iskhaki • Ruslan Chagaev Şihabetdin Märcani • Pyotr Gavrilov Gabdulkhay Akhatov • Dinara Safina • Diniyar Bilyaletdinov • Ğabdulla Tuqay
Total population
ca. 6.8 million[source?]
Regions with significant populations
Russia :  Tatarstan 2,012,571  Bashkortostan 1,009,295  Moscow 149,043	5,310,649[1]
Uzbekistan	467,829[2]
Kazakhstan	203,371[3]
Ukraine	73,304[4]
Turkmenistan	36,355[5]
Kyrgyzstan	31,500[source?]
Tajikistan	19,000[source?]
China	5,064[6]
Languages
Tatar, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam majority, Russian Orthodox minority

Tatars refer to a number of Turkic-speaking peoples,^[7] which include (but are not limited to) the Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Siberian Tatars. But do not include the Crimean Tatars.^[8][9] Most Tatars live in Russia (forming the majority in Tatarstan), as well as in countries as Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.

Crimean Tatars live in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.

Smaller minorities of Tatars live in Israel, France, Canada, Australia, the United States, Finland, and Japan.

The Tatars mostly practice Sunni Islam.

Their closest relatives are the Bashkirs, and they are also related to the Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Chuvash people, and the Turkish people.

1. ↑ Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity Archived 2013-12-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
2. ↑ "Uzbekistan – Ethnic minorities" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-06-03.^{[permanent dead link]}
3. ↑ Агентство Республики Казахстан по статистике: Численность населения Республики Казахстан по отдельным этносам на 1 января 2012 года Archived 2013-06-03 at the Wayback Machine stat.kz
4. ↑ "About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001". Ukraine Census 2001. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
5. ↑ Asgabat.net-городской социально-информационный портал :Итоги всеобщей переписи населения Туркменистана по национальному составу в 1995 году. Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
6. ↑ National Bureau of Statistics of China- Data from 1990 cencus :Geographic distribution of minority nationalities^{[permanent dead link]}
7. ↑ "Tatar - people". Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
8. ↑ The Crimean Tatars: The Diaspora Experience and the Forging of a Nation Archived 2021-02-24 at the Wayback Machine by Brian Glyn Williams
9. ↑ Крымские татары Archived 2021-03-08 at the Wayback Machine - Big Russian Encyclopedia