The
Russian Federation
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
is a
multinational state
A multinational state or a multinational political union, union is a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or State (polity), states. This contrasts with a nation state, where a single nation accounts for the bulk of the population. ...
with over 190 ethnic groups designated as nationalities, population of these groups varying enormously, from millions in case of e.g. Russians and Tatars to under ten thousand in the case of Samis and Kets.
Among
85 subjects which constitute the
Russian Federation
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, there are 21 national republics (meant to be home to a specific ethnic minority), 5 autonomous okrugs (usually with substantial or predominant ethnic minority) and an
autonomous oblast.
The table below gives the population of various
ethnic group
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
s of
Russia
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according to the
2002 Russian Census.
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A
B
V
G
D
E
Y
Z
I
Y
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
F
Kh
Ts
C
Sh
E
Y
Miscellaneous
Merged table
Since the number of ethnic groups recorded was too high the table was modified merging similar ethnic groups. The below table was prepared after merging similar groups.
See also
* Ethnic groups in Russia
Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity, is a multinational state, and is home to over 190 ethnic groups nationwide. However, demographically; ethnic Russians dominate the country's population. In the 2010 Census, r ...
* Demographics of Russia
Russia, the largest country in the world by area, had a population of 147.2 million according to the 2021 census, or 144.7 million when excluding Crimea and Sevastopol, up from 142.8 million in the 2010 census. It is the most populous coun ...
* Ethnic groups of Siberia
* First All Union Census of the Soviet Union
The 1926 Soviet Census took place in December 1926. It was an important tool in the state-building of the USSR, provided the government with important ethnographic information, and helped in the transformation from Imperial Russian society to Sov ...
References
{{Ethnic groups in Russia
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Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
Ethnic
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...