Komi peoples

Komi
	Komi people photographed in 2006 in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Total population
	approx. 553,000 (2002)
Regions with significant populations
	Russia, largely located in the Komi Republic, Perm Krai, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk Oblast, and Murmansk Oblast
Russia	Komi-Zyryans 293,406 (2002), 228,235 (2010); Komi-Permyaks 125,235 (2002), 94,456 (2010);
Ukraine	Komi-Zyryans and Komi-Permyaks 2,710 (2001);
CIS	Komi-Zyryans 8,210 (1989); Komi-Permyaks 4,791 (1989);
Estonia	Komi-Zyryans and Komi-Permyaks 95 (2011);
Finland	Komi speakers 29 (2017);
Languages
	Russian, Komi (Zyryan, Permyak, Yazva)
Religion
	Predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christianity; (Russian Orthodoxy); also Shamanism;
Related ethnic groups
	Udmurts, other Permians

The Komi (Komi: комияс, romanized: komijas also коми-войтыр, komi-vojtyr) are an Indigenous Permian ethnic group whose homeland is in the northeast of European Russia around the basins of the Vychegda, Pechora and Kama rivers. They mostly reside in the Komi Republic, Perm Krai, Murmansk Oblast, Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Federation.

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