Large ethnic groups of the world and their number. The national composition of the population of the earth

Despite the efforts of historians and ethnographers, the history of these peoples still keeps its mysteries.

1. Russians

Yes, Russians are one of the most mysterious peoples. Scientists still cannot come to a consensus either about when the Russians became "Russians", or about where, in fact, this word came from. The question of the origin of the people remains controversial. Normans, Scythians, Sarmatians, Wends, and even the South Siberian people of the Usuns were recorded as the ancestors of the Russians.

We do not know the origin of the Mayan people, nor where they disappeared to. Some scientists trace Mayan roots to the legendary Atlanteans, others believe that the Egyptians were their ancestors. The Maya created an efficient system of agriculture, had deep knowledge in the field of astronomy. Mayan calendar used by other peoples Central America. They used a hieroglyphic writing system, partially deciphered. The Mayan civilization was very advanced, but by the time the conquistadors arrived, it was in deep decline, and the Mayans themselves seemed to have disappeared into history.

3. Laplanders

The Laplanders are also called Sami and Lapps. The age of this ethnic group is at least 5000 years old. Scientists are still arguing who the Laplanders are and where they came from. Some consider this people to be Mongoloid, others argue that the Laplanders are Paleo-Europeans. The Sami language is classified as a Finno-Ugric language, but the Laplanders have 10 dialects of the Sami language, which are so different from each other that they can be called independent. This even makes it difficult for some Laplanders to communicate with others.

4. Prussians

The very origin of the name of the Prussians is shrouded in mystery. The first time it occurs only in the 9th century in the form of Brusi in the draft of an anonymous merchant, and later - in Polish and German chronicles. Linguists find analogies for it in many Indo-European languages and believe that it goes back to the Sanskrit purusa - "man". Sufficient information about the language of the Prussians has also not been preserved. Its last carrier died in 1677, and the plague of 1709-1711 exterminated the last Prussians in Prussia itself. Already in the 17th century, instead of Prussian history, the history of “Prussianism” and the kingdom of Prussia began, the local population of which had little in common with the Baltic name of the Prussians.

5. Cossacks

The question of where the Cossacks came from is still unresolved. Their homeland is found in the North Caucasus, and in the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov, and in Western Turkestan. The genealogy of the Cossacks is traced back to the Scythians, to the Alans, to the Circassians, to the Khazars, to the Goths, to the wanderers. Supporters of all versions have their own arguments. Today, the Cossacks are a multi-ethnic community, but they themselves like to insist that the Cossacks are a separate people.

6. Parsis

The Parsis are an ethno-confessional group of followers of Zoroastrianism in South Asia, of Iranian origin. Its number now is less than 130 thousand people. The Parsees have their own temples and the so-called "towers of silence", where, in order not to desecrate the sacred elements (earth, fire, water), they bury the dead (corpses are pecked by vultures). Parsees are often compared to Jews, they were also forced to leave their homeland and are meticulous in matters of observance of cults. The "Iranian League" in India at the beginning of the 20th century promoted the return of the Parsi to their homeland, reminiscent of the Zionism of the Jews.

7. Hutsuls

The meaning of the word "hutsul" is still debated. Some scientists believe that the etymology of the word goes back to the Moldavian "gots" or "guts", which means "robber", others - to the word "kochul", which means "shepherd". Hutsuls are also called "Ukrainian Highlanders". Among them, the traditions of quackery are still strong. Hutsul sorcerers are called molfars. They can be white and black. Molfars enjoy unquestioned authority.

8. Hittites

The Hittite state was one of the most influential forces on the geopolitical map ancient world. The first constitution appeared here, the Hittites were the first to use war chariots and revered the double-headed eagle, but information about the Hittites is still fragmentary. In their "tables of courageous deeds" of the kings, there are many notes "for the next year", but the year of the report is unknown. We know the chronology of the Hittite state from the sources of its neighbors. Remains open question: Where did the Hittites disappear? Johann Lehmann in his book The Hittites. The people of a thousand gods ”gives a version that the Hittites went north, where they assimilated with Germanic tribes. But this is just a version.

9. Sumerians

The Sumerians are the most interesting and still one of the most mysterious peoples of the Ancient World. We don't know where they came from or what language family belonged to their language. A large number of homonyms suggests that it was tonal (as, for example, modern Chinese), which means that the meaning of what was said often depended on intonation. The Sumerians were one of the most advanced peoples of their time, they were the first in the entire Middle East to use the wheel, created an irrigation system, invented a unique writing system, and the knowledge of the Sumerians in mathematics and astronomy is still amazing.

10. Etruscans

The ancient people of the Etruscans suddenly arose in human history, but also suddenly dissolved in it. According to archaeologists, the Etruscans inhabited the northwestern part of the Apennine Peninsula and created a fairly developed civilization there. It was the Etruscans who founded the first cities in Italy. Historians also believe that Roman numerals can also be called Etruscan. It is not known where the Etruscans disappeared. According to one version, they moved to the east and became the ancestors of the Slavic ethnic group. Some scholars argue that the Etruscan language is very close to Slavic in its structure.

11. Armenians

The origin of the Armenians remains a mystery. There are many versions. Some scholars associate Armenians with the people ancient state Urartu, but the genetic component of the Urartians is present in genetic code Armenians as well as the genetic component of the same Hurrians and Luvians, not to mention the proto-Armenians. There are Greek versions of the origin of the Armenians, as well as the so-called "Hayasian hypotheses", in which Hayas, the territory to the east of the Hittite kingdom, becomes the ancestral home of the Armenians. Scientists have not given a final answer to the question of the origin of the Armenians and most often adhere to the migration-mixed hypothesis of Armenian ethnogenesis.

12. gypsies

According to linguistic and genetic research, the ancestors of the Gypsies left the territory of India in an amount not exceeding 1000 people. There are about 10 million Roma in the world today. In the Middle Ages, gypsies in Europe were considered Egyptians. The very word Gitanes is derived from the Egyptian. Tarot cards, which are considered the last surviving fragment of the cult of the Egyptian god Thoth, were brought to Europe by the gypsies. They were not in vain called "Pharaoh's tribe." It was also striking for the Europeans that the gypsies embalmed their dead and buried them in crypts, where they laid everything necessary for life after death. These funeral traditions are alive with the gypsies today.

13. Jews

Jews are one of the most mysterious of the living peoples. For a long time it was believed that the very concept of "Jews" is more cultural than ethnic. That is, that "Jews" were created by Judaism, and not vice versa. In science, there are still fierce discussions about what the Jews originally were - a people, a social stratum or a religious denomination.

Mysteries in history Jewish people a bunch of. At the end of the 8th century BC, five-sixths of the Jews completely disappeared - 10 out of 12 ethno-forming genera. Where did they disappear to? big question. There is a version that Finns, Swiss, Swedes, Norwegians, Irish, Welsh, French, Belgians, Dutch, Danes, Irish and Welsh come from the Scythians and Cimmerians, as descendants of 10 tribes, that is, almost all European peoples. The question of the origin of the Ashkenazim and their closeness to the Jews of the Middle East also remains debatable.

14. Guanches

The Guanches are the natives of Tenerife. The mystery of how they ended up in the Canary Islands has not yet been solved, since they did not have a fleet and did not have sailing skills. Their anthropological type did not correspond to the latitudes where they lived. The rectangular pyramids on the island of Tenerife, similar to the Mayan and Aztec pyramids in Mexico, also cause controversy. Neither the time of their construction nor the purpose for which they were erected is known.

15. Khazars

Much has been written about the Khazars neighboring nations, but they themselves left practically no information about themselves. How unexpectedly the Khazars appeared on the historical stage, just as suddenly they left it. Historians still do not have sufficient archaeological data about what Khazaria was like, nor an understanding of what language the Khazars spoke. It is also unknown where they eventually disappeared. There are many versions. There is no clarity.

16. Basques

The age, origin and language of the Basques is one of the main mysteries modern history. The Basque language - Euskara, is considered the only relict pre-Indo-European language that does not belong to any existing language family. As for genetics, according to a 2012 study by the National Geographic Society, all Basques contain a set of genes that significantly distinguishes them from other peoples around them.

17. Chaldeans

The Chaldeans are a Semitic-Aramaic people who lived at the end of the 2nd - beginning of the 1st millennium BC. in southern and middle Mesopotamia. In 626-538 BC. in Babylon, the Chaldean dynasty ruled, which founded the Neo-Babylonian kingdom. The Chaldeans were a people still associated with magic and astrology. IN Ancient Greece And Ancient Rome priests and soothsayers of Babylonian origin were called Chaldeans. The Chaldeans made predictions to Alexander the Great and his heirs Antigonus and Seleucus.

18. Sarmatians

The Sarmatians are one of the most mysterious peoples in world history. Herodotus called them "lizard-headed", Lomonosov believed that the Slavs descended from the Sarmatians, and the Polish gentry called themselves their direct descendants. The Sarmatians left a lot of mysteries. They probably had a matriarchy. Some scientists lead the roots of the Russian kokoshnik from the Sarmatians. Among them, the custom of artificial deformation of the skull was widespread, due to which the human head took on the shape of an elongated egg.

19. Kalash

The Kalash are a small people living in northern Pakistan in the Hindu Kush mountains. He is probably the most famous "white" people of Asia. Disputes about the origin of the Kalash continue today. The Kalash themselves are sure that they are the descendants of the Macedonian himself. The Kalash language is called phonologically atypical; it has retained the basic composition of Sanskrit. Despite attempts at Islamization, many Kalash retain polytheism.

20. Philistines

The modern name "Palestine" comes from "Philistia". The Philistines are the most mysterious people of those mentioned in the Bible. In the Middle East, only they and the Hittites owned the technology of steel smelting, marking the beginning of the Iron Age. The Bible says that this people comes from the island of Caphtor (Crete), although some historians correlate the Philistines with the Pelasgians. Egyptian manuscripts testify to the Cretan origins of the Philistines, and archaeological finds. Where the Philistines disappeared to is still not clear. Most likely, they were assimilated by the peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Only on the territory of Russia there are 65 small peoples, and the number of some of them does not exceed a thousand people. There are hundreds of similar peoples on Earth, and each carefully preserves its customs, language and culture.

Our top ten today includes smallest nations in the world.

This little people lives on the territory of Dagestan, and its number is only 443 people as of the end of 2010. For a long time, the Ginukh people were not singled out as a separate ethnic group, since the Ginukh language was considered only one of the dialects of the Tsez language common in Dagestan.

9. Selkups

Until the 1930s, representatives of this West Siberian people were called Ostyak-Samoyeds. The number of Selkups is slightly more than 4 thousand people. They live mainly on the territory of the Tyumen, Tomsk regions, as well as the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

8. Nganasans

This people lives on the Taimyr Peninsula, and its number is about 800 people. Nganasany - the most northern people in Eurasia. Until the middle of the 20th century, people led nomadic image life, overtaking herds of deer over long distances, today the Nganasans live settled.

7. Orochons

The place of residence of this small ethnic group is China and Mongolia. The population is about 7 thousand people. The history of the people has more than a thousand years, the Orochons are mentioned in many documents related to the early Chinese imperial dynasties.

6. Evenki

This indigenous people of Russia lives in Eastern Siberia. This people is the most numerous in our ten - its number is quite sufficient to populate a small town. There are about 35 thousand Evenks in the world.

5. Kets

Kets live in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The number of this people is less than 1500 people. Until the middle of the 20th century, representatives of the ethnic group were called Ostyaks, as well as Yeniseis. The Ket language belongs to the group of Yenisei languages.

4. Chulyms

The number of this indigenous people of Russia is 355 people as of 2010. Although most of Chulyms recognize Orthodoxy, the ethnic group carefully preserves some traditions of shamanism. Chulyms live mainly in the Tomsk region. Interestingly, the Chulym language does not have a written language.

3. Basins

The number of this people living in Primorye is only 276 people. The Taz language is a mixture of one of the Chinese dialects with the Nanai language. Now less than half of those who identify themselves as Taz speak this language.

2. Livy

This extremely small people lives on the territory of Latvia. From time immemorial, the main occupations of the Livs were piracy, fishing and hunting. Today, the people are almost completely assimilated. According to official figures, only 180 Livs remained.

1 Pitcairnians

This people is the smallest in the world and lives on the small island of Pitcairn in Oceania. The number of Pitcairns is about 60 people. They are all descendants of the sailors of the British warship Bounty, who landed here in 1790. The Pitcairn language is a mixture of Simplified English, Tahitian and Maritime vocabulary.

Do you know how many peoples there are in the world? Probably, few people can accurately answer this question, even among scientists and historians. In Russia alone, there are 194 positions of the peoples of the world (the list goes on and on). All people on Earth are completely different, and this is the biggest advantage.

General classification

Of course, everyone is interested in quantitative data. If you collect all the peoples of the world, the list will be endless. It is much easier to classify them according to certain criteria. First of all, this is done depending on what language people speak within the same territory or within the same cultural traditions. An even more generalized category is language families.

Preserved for centuries

Every nation, no matter what its history, is trying with all possible strength to prove that their ancestors built tower of babel. It is flattering for everyone to think that he or she belongs to those roots that originate in far, far away times. But there are ancient peoples of the world (the list is attached), whose prehistoric origin is beyond doubt by anyone.

Largest nations

There are many on earth large nations having one historical roots. For example, there are 330 nations in the world, numbering one million people each. But those with more than 100 million people (in each) - only eleven. Consider the list of peoples of the world by number:

Chinese - 1.17 million people.
Hindustanis - 265 million people.
Bengalis - 225 million people.
Americans (USA) - 200 million people.
Brazilians - 175 million people.
Russians - 140 million people.
The Japanese - 125 million people.
Punjabis - 115 million people.
Biharis - 115 million people.
Mexicans - 105 million people.
Javanese - 105 million people.

Unity in Diversity

Another classification characteristic that makes it possible to distinguish between the population of the world is three. These are Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. Some Western historians give a little more, but these races still became derivatives of the three main ones.

IN modern world there are a large number of contact races. This led to the emergence of new peoples of the world. The list has not yet been given by scientists, because no one has done an exact classification. Here are some examples. The Ural group of peoples originated from a mixture of some branches of the northern Caucasians and northern Mongoloids. The entire population of southern insular Asia arose as a result of the relationship of Mongoloids and Australoids.

Endangered ethnic groups

There are peoples of the world on Earth (the list is attached), the number of which is several hundred people. These are endangered ethnic groups that are trying to preserve their identity.

conclusions

It can be interpreted in different ways. Some will argue that this is a population within the state, others will insist that it does not matter where people live, the main thing is that they are united by some common features that determine their belonging to the same historical origins. Still others will consider that the people are an ethnic group that has existed for centuries, but has been erased over the years. In any case, all people on Earth are very diverse and it is a pleasure to study them.

The concept of "ethnos" includes a historically established set of people who have a certain number of common subjective or objective characteristics. These features include origin, language, cultural and economic characteristics, mentality and self-awareness, phenotypic and genotypic data, as well as territory. long stay.

The word "ethnos" Greek roots and literally translates as "the people". The word "nationality" can be considered a synonym for this definition in Russian. The term "ethnos" was introduced into scientific terminology in 1923 by the Russian scientist S.M. Shirokogorov. He gave the first definition of this word.

How is the formation of an ethnic group

Among the ancient Greeks, the word "ethnos" was adopted refer to other nations who were not Greeks. For a long time in the Russian language, the word “people” was used as an analogue. Definition of S.M. Shirokogorov made it possible to emphasize the commonality of culture, relationships, traditions, way of life and language.

modern science allows you to interpret this concept from 2 points of view:

The origin and formation of any ethnic group implies a large length in time. Most often, this formation occurs around a specific language or religious beliefs. Based on this, we often pronounce phrases such as " Christian culture”, “Islamic world”, “Romance group of languages”.

The main conditions for the emergence of an ethnic group are the presence common territory and language. These same factors are further supporting factors and the main ones. hallmarks one ethnicity or another.

Among the additional factors influencing the formation of an ethnic group, one can note:

shared religious beliefs.
Proximity from a racial point of view.
The presence of transitional interracial groups (mestizo).

The factors that unite an ethnic group include:

Specific Features material and spiritual culture.
Community of life.
Group psychological characteristics.
A common awareness of oneself and an idea of a common origin.
The presence of an ethnonym - a self-name.

Ethnos is essentially a complex dynamic system, which is constantly undergoing transformation processes and at the same time maintains its stability.

The culture of each ethnic group retains a certain constancy and simultaneously changes over time from one era to another. Peculiarities national culture and self-knowledge, religious and spiritual and moral values leave an imprint on the nature of the biological self-reproduction of the ethnos.

Features of the existence of ethnic groups and their patterns

The historically formed ethnos acts as an integral social organism and has the following ethnic relations:

Self-reproduction occurs through repeated homogeneous marriages and the transmission from generation to generation of traditions, self-consciousness, cultural property, language and religious characteristics.
In the course of their existence, all ethnic groups undergo a number of processes within themselves - assimilation, consolidation, etc.
In order to strengthen their existence, most ethnic groups strive to create their own state, which allows them to regulate relations both within themselves and with other groups of peoples.

The patterns of peoples can be considered behavioral models of relationships, which are typical for individual representatives. This also includes behavioral patterns that characterize individual social groups formed within the nation.

Ethnos can be simultaneously considered as a natural-territorial and socio-cultural phenomenon. As a kind of link that supports the existence of a particular ethnic group, some researchers propose to consider the hereditary factor and endogamy. However, one cannot but admit that the quality of the nation's gene pool is significantly influenced by conquests, the standard of living, and historical and cultural traditions.

The hereditary factor is tracked primarily in anthropometric and phenotypic data. However, anthropometric indicators do not always completely coincide with ethnicity. According to another group of researchers, the constancy of the ethnic group is due to national identity. However, such self-awareness can simultaneously act as an indicator collective activity.

The unique self-consciousness and perception of the world of one or another ethnic group may directly depend on what its development activity is. environment. The same type of activity can be perceived and evaluated differently in the minds of different ethnic groups.

The most stable mechanism that allows to preserve the uniqueness, integrity and stability of an ethnic group is its culture and common historical fate.

Ethnos and its types

Traditionally, ethnicity is considered primarily as generic concept. Based on this idea, it is customary to distinguish three types of ethnic groups:

Genus-tribe (a species characteristic of primitive society).
Nationality ( characteristic type in slavery and feudal centuries).
The notion of a nation is characteristic of a capitalist society.

There are basic factors that unite representatives of one people:

Clans and tribes were historically the very first types of ethnic groups. Their existence lasted several tens of thousands of years. As the way of life and the structure of mankind developed and became more complex, the concept of nationality appeared. Their appearance is associated with the formation of tribal unions in the common territory of residence.

Factors in the development of peoples

Today in the world there are several thousand ethnic groups. All of them differ in the level of development, mentality, population, culture and language. There may be significant differences in racial and external criteria.

For example, the number of ethnic groups such as Chinese, Russians, Brazilians exceeds 100 million people. Along with such gigantic peoples, there are varieties in the world, the number of which does not always reach ten people. State of the art different groups can also vary from the most highly developed, to those living according to primitive communal principles. Every nation has own language, however, there are ethnic groups that simultaneously use several languages.

In the process of interethnic interactions, processes of assimilation and consolidation are launched, as a result of which a new ethnic group may gradually form. The socialization of an ethnos proceeds due to the development of such social institutions like family, religion, school, etc.

The following factors can be attributed to unfavorable factors for the development of the nation:

High level mortality among the population, especially in childhood.
High prevalence of respiratory infections.
Alcohol and drug addiction.
The destruction of the institution of the family - a high number of single-parent families, divorces, abortions, parents abandoning children.
Low quality of life.
High unemployment.
High crime rate.
Social passivity of the population.

Classification and examples of ethnos

The classification is carried out according to different parameters, the simplest of which is the number. This indicator not only characterizes the state of the ethnic group at the current moment, but also reflects the nature of its historical development. Usually, formation of large and small ethnic groups proceeds in completely different ways. The level and nature of interethnic interactions depend on the number of one or another ethnic group.

Examples of the largest ethnic groups include the following (according to data from 1993):

The total number of these peoples is 40% of total strength the entire population the globe. There is also a group of ethnic groups with a population of 1 to 5 million people. They make up about 8% of the total population.

Most small ethnic groups may number several hundred people. An example is the Yukagiru, an ethnic group living in Yakutia, and the Izhors, a Finnish ethnic group inhabiting territories in the Leningrad region.

Another classification criterion is population dynamics in ethnic groups. The minimum population growth is observed in Western European ethnic groups. The maximum growth is noted in the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America.

Russia is famous as a multinational state, more than 190 peoples live on the territory of the country. Most of them ended up in the Russian Federation peacefully, thanks to the annexation of new territories. Each nation is distinguished by its history, culture and heritage. Let us analyze in more detail the national composition of Russia, considering each ethnic group separately.

Large nationalities of Russia

Russians are the most numerous indigenous ethnic group living in Russia. The number of Russian people in the world is equated to 133 million people, but some sources indicate a figure of up to 150 million. IN Russian Federation more than 110 (almost 79% of the total population of the country) million Russians live, most of the Russians also live in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. If we consider the map of Russia, then the Russian people are distributed in large numbers throughout the entire territory of the state, living in every region of the country ...

Tatars, compared with Russians, make up only 3.7% of the total population of the country. Tatar people has a population of 5.3 million people. This ethnic group lives throughout the country, the most densely populated city of Tatars is Tatarstan, more than 2 million people live there, and the most sparsely populated region is Ingushetia, where there are not even a thousand people from the Tatar people ...

The Bashkirs are the indigenous people of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The number of Bashkirs is about 1.5 million people - this is 1.1% of total number all residents of the Russian Federation. Of the one and a half million people, most (about 1 million) live on the territory of Bashkortostan. The rest of the Bashkirs live throughout Russia, as well as in the CIS countries ...

Chuvash are indigenous people Chuvash Republic. Their number is 1.4 million people, which is 1.01% of the total national composition of Russians. According to the census, about 880 thousand Chuvashs live on the territory of the republic, the rest live in all regions of Russia, as well as in Kazakhstan and Ukraine ...

Chechens are a people who settled in the North Caucasus, Chechnya is considered their homeland. In Russia, the number Chechen people amounted to 1.3 million people, but according to statistics, since 2015 the number of Chechens in the territory of the Russian Federation has increased to 1.4 million. This people accounts for 1.01% of the total population of Russia ...

The Mordovian people have a population of about 800 thousand people (about 750 thousand), which is 0.54% of the total population. Most of the people live in Mordovia - about 350 thousand people, followed by the regions: Samara, Penza, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk. Least of all given ethnos lives in the Ivanovo and Omsk regions, even 5 thousand belonging to the Mordovian people will not gather there ...

The Udmurt people have a population of 550 thousand people - this is 0.40% of the total population of our vast Motherland. Most of the ethnic group lives in Udmurt Republic, and the rest dispersed in neighboring regions - Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Sverdlovsk region, Perm region, Kirov region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. small part Udmurt people migrated to Kazakhstan and Ukraine ...

Yakuts represent indigenous people Yakutia. Their number is equal to 480 thousand people - this is about 0.35% of the total national composition in the Russian Federation. Yakuts make up the majority of the inhabitants of Yakutia and Siberia. They also live in other regions of Russia, the regions most densely populated by Yakuts are Irkutsk and Magadan region, Krasnoyarsk region, Khabarovsk and Primorsky district ...

According to statistics available after the census, 460,000 Buryats live in Russia. This is 0.32% of the total number of Russians. Most of the Buryats (about 280 thousand people) live in Buryatia, being the indigenous population of this republic. The rest of the people of Buryatia live in other regions of Russia. The territory most densely populated by Buryats is Irkutsk region(77 thousand) and the Trans-Baikal Territory (73 thousand), and less populated - the Kamchatka Territory and the Kemerovo Region, even 2000 thousand Buryats cannot be found there ...

The number of the Komi people living on the territory of the Russian Federation is 230 thousand people. This figure is 0.16% of the total population in Russia. For living, this people chose not only the Komi Republic, which is their immediate homeland, but also other regions of our vast country. The Komi people are found in the Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk and Omsk regions, as well as in the Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugs ...

The people of Kalmykia are indigenous to the Republic of Kalmykia. Their number is 190 thousand people, if compared as a percentage, then 0.13% of the total population living in Russia. Most of these people, not counting Kalmykia, live in the Astrakhan and Volgograd regions - about 7 thousand people. And least of all Kalmyks live in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and the Stavropol Territory - less than a thousand people ...

Altaians are the indigenous people of Altai, therefore they live mainly in this republic. Although some of the population left historical territory habitat, now they live in the Kemerovo and Novosibirsk regions. The total number of the Altai people is 79 thousand people, in percentage - 0.06 of the total number of Russians ...

Chukchi belong to small people from northeastern Asia. In Russia, the Chukchi people have a small number - about 16 thousand people, their people make up 0.01% of the total population of our multinational country. This people is scattered throughout Russia, but most of them settled in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Yakutia, the Kamchatka Territory and the Magadan Region ...

These are the most common peoples that you can meet in the vastness of Mother Russia. However, the list is far from complete, because there are also foreigners in our state. For example, Germans, Vietnamese, Arabs, Serbs, Romanians, Czechs, Americans, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, French, Italians, Slovaks, Croats, Tuvans, Uzbeks, Spaniards, British, Japanese, Pakistanis, etc. Most of the listed ethnic groups make up 0.01% of the total, but there are peoples with more than 0.5%.

You can continue endlessly, because the vast territory of the Russian Federation is capable of accommodating many peoples under one roof, both indigenous and those arriving from other countries and even continents.