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The Uyghurs (wee-ger; 维吾尔人) are a Turkic people and a Central Asian ethnic group, living mainly in Xinjiang, nowadays a province located in the far northwest of China. Over 11 million Uyghurs live there, far more than any other part of the world.

Uyghur
ئۇيغۇر
File:Uyghur-man-sunday-market-Kashgar.jpg
Uyghur man at the Sunday market in Kashgar
Regions with significant populations
22x20px China
(Xinjiang)		11,303,355[1]
22x20px Kazakhstan223,100 (2009)[2]
22x20px Uzbekistan55,220 (2008)
22x20px Kyrgyzstan49,000 (2009)[3]
22x20px Turkey (Uyghurs in Turkey)45,800 (2010)[4][5]
22x20px Saudi Arabia~50,000 (2013) (Saudi Labor Ministry)[6]
22x20px Syria~3,500 (2015) (Uyghur Turkistan Islamic Party members plus families in Zanbaqi (الزنبقي) in Jisr al-Shughur)[7][8][9][10]
22x20px Pakistan
(Uyghurs in Pakistan)		~1,000 families (2010)[11]
22x20px Russia3,696 (2010)[12]
22x20px Ukraine197 (2001)[13]
Languages
Uyghur
Religion
Sunni Islam (Hanafi)
Related ethnic groups
other Turkic peoples
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Many Uyghurs also live in Beijing, Shanghai[14] and Taoyuan County (Hunan, South-Central China).[15] There are Uyghur diasporic communities in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Mongolia. However, the vast majority of Uyghurs live in their native homeland Xinjiang.

Uyghurs are mainly Sunni Muslim and speak Uyghur, a Turkic language. The Uyghur alphabet is based on the Arabic alphabet. The vast majority of Uyghurs follow the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam.

Most Uyghurs were originally from the ancient Karluk tribes of the Kara-Khanid Khanate and immigrated to what is now Xinjiang during the 8th or 9th centuries AD. Modern Uyghurs identify with the Karakhanids even though the name Uyghur was taken from the Manichaean Uyghur Khaganate and the Buddhist state of Qocho.[16][17]

At a conference in Tashkent in 1921, representatives of the New Uyghur-speaking population of West Turkestan, whose language does not go back directly to the Old Uyghur of Mongolia, or only to a small extent, adopted the name "Uyghurs" for themselves.[18][19]

Some Uyghurs seek independence from China.[20]

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Uyghur People Media

  • KashgarNaan.jpg

    A Uyghur girde naan baker

  • Uyghur blacksmiths - Yengisar Flickr.webm

    Uyghur blacksmiths at work. Yengisar, Xinjiang, China. Yengisar is famous for the quality of its knives.

  • Uyghur tambur.jpg

    Uyghur man in traditional clothing, playing a tambur, a traditional Uyghur instrument

  • Pair of Uyghur donors from the Bezeklik Caves.jpg

    Mural fragment depicting two Uyghur donors, from the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves. Kept in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin.

  • Uyghur-hunter-Kashgar.jpg

    Uyghur hunter, Kashgar.

  • Genetic distances Eurasian West Asian East Asian.png

    Genetic distance between different Eurasian populations and frequency of West- and East-Eurasian components.

  • Uighur princes, Bezeklik, Cave 9, c. 8th-9th century AD, wall painting - Ethnological Museum, Berlin - DSC01747.JPG

    Uyghur princes from Cave 9 of the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, Xinjiang, China, 8th–9th century AD, wall painting

  • Conversion of Bögü Qaghan (759-780 CE) to Manicheism in 762 (detailed of Bögü Qaghan in a suit of armour, kneeling to a Manichean high priest).jpg

    Bögü Qaghan, the third Khagan of the Uyghur Khaganate, in a suit of armor; 8th century Manichean manuscript (MIK III 4979)

  • Old World 820.png

    Uyghur Khaganate in geopolitical context c. 820 AD

  • Chagatai Khanate (1490).png

    Chagatai Khanate (Moghulistan) in 1490

References

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  2. ↑ Агентство Республики Каписью на 26,1% и составила 10098,6 тыс. человек. Увеличилась численность узбеков на 23,3%, составив 457,2 тыс. человек, уйгур — на 6%, составив 223,1 тыс. человек. Снизилась численность русских на 15,3%, составив 3797,0 тыс. человек; немцев — на 49,6%, составив 178,2 тыс. человек; украинцев – на 39,1%, составив 333,2 тыс. человек; татар – на 18,4%, составив 203,3 тыс. человек; других этносов – на 5,8%, составив 714,2 тыс. человек.
  3. ↑ Национальный статистический комитет Кыргызской Республики : Перепись населения и жилищного фонда Кыргызской Республики 2009 года в цифрах и фактах — Архив Публикаций — КНИГА II (часть I в таблицах) : 3.1. Численность постоянного населения по национальностям Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
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  5. ↑ Uygur Ajan Rabia Kadir, Doğu Türkistanlı Mücahidleri İhbar Etti. 8 January 2015. http://www.islahhaber.net/uygur-ajan-rabia-kadir--dogu-turkistanli-mucahidleri-ihbar-etti-42554.html. 
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  13. ↑ State statistics committee of Ukraine - National composition of population, 2001 census (Ukrainian)
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  20. ↑ "U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps" (in en). Reuters. 2018-08-12. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un-idUSKBN1KV1SU. Retrieved 2020-07-31. 

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