Kyrgyz in China
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.
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 | |||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 柯尔克孜族 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 柯爾克孜族 | ||||||||
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| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||
| Kyrgyz | قىرعىزدار | ||||||||
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