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Countries with the Most Turkic People

The Turkic peoples are an ethnolinguistic group originally from Central Asia. Can you name the modern-day countries that have the most people of Turkic descent?

Source: Wikipedia

Numbers should be considered crude estimates

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Last updated: September 27, 2018

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# People	Country
59.5 mil	Turkey
25.2 mil	Uzbekistan
15.0 mil	Iran
12.8 mil	Russia
12.3 mil	Kazakhstan
11.7 mil	China
9.0 mil	Azerbaijan
4.5 mil	Turkmenistan

# People	Country
4.5 mil	Kyrgyzstan
3.5 mil	Afghanistan
2.8 mil	Germany
1.5 mil	Iraq
1.2 mil	Tajikistan
1.0 mil	United States
900 k	Syria

cpgatbyu

level 74

Sep 26, 2018

There are 3 million Turkish people in Germany, and 3/4 of Turkish people are Turkic, but there are fewer than 900,000 Turkic people in Germany? Do Turkic Turks like Germany less than non-Turkic Turks do?

Quizmaster

level ∞

Sep 26, 2018

Thanks, this has been added. The source data group the European Union together for some reason.

someone2018

level 59

Oct 4, 2018

In all fairness minority groups in a country tend to emigrate more. In Turkey, the Kurds and Armenians particularly want out.

promastermage

level 62

Sep 27, 2018

Azerbaijan has less than 10 million people and around 92,5% are Turkic people, according to those sources. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/azerbaijan-population/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan#Ethnic_groups

Quizmaster

level ∞

Sep 27, 2018

Revised the number down to 9 million.

jf15

level 45

Sep 27, 2018

Relatively easy quiz when you think of geography, including Kurdistan, and also emigration.

lubi

level 64

Oct 1, 2018

The Kurds are not a Turkic group.

HatemAli

level 65

Dec 5, 2018

Yeah I want to understand this more...why on earth are there 900k tukic people in syria then? And in Iraq. If it's not the kurds then what are these numbers?

RockmanYoshi

level 50

Dec 5, 2018

@HatemAli There are groups known as the Syrian and Iraqi Turkmen.

JessieTan04

level 24

Sep 27, 2018

wow china! i wasn't expecting that.

kogatora

level 67

Sep 27, 2018

the xinjiang area has many muslims a lot of whom would be turkic.

skoldpadda

level 60

Sep 30, 2018

China has about half a dozen Turkic groups.

EvaR

level 54

Dec 5, 2018

sadly, China is really trying to decrease their numbers. There's genocide going on in China and the world is doing nothing

WillemLAif

level 64

Dec 5, 2018

@EvaR It's not about being Turkic, though...

MiracleMax

level 57

Dec 5, 2018

China is a pretty safe bet for any quiz that bases numbers on actual population, as opposed to percent. It's just got so many people.

TomJStadler

level 30

Sep 28, 2018

1% of people didn't think of Turkey...

someone2018

+16

level 59

Oct 4, 2018

Some prefer ham.

cornflakesfu

level 74

Dec 5, 2018

And 8% didn't get Turkmenistan.

EricStrong

level 23

Dec 5, 2018

Some people don't know Turkmenistan is a country. How they didn't get Turkey tho...

Jorissie

level 65

Dec 5, 2018

So there's almost twice as much Turks living outside of turkey as inside of turkey

camus

level 68

Dec 5, 2018

Turks ≠ Turkic people

ander217

level 74

Dec 5, 2018

I've never heard of Turkic people before, but they were on another quiz this week, too. Have they been in the news recently?

kalbahamut

level 74

Dec 5, 2018

I can think of several instances of this term appearing in the news but not moreso recently than at any other time. Ethnic strife with Turkish Uighurs in China. Conflicts between Kurdish and Turkic (and Arabic) peoples in the Levant. References to problems with immigrant populations in Germany. And of course in historical texts about the Middle East and Central Asia you run into the term all the time.

kalbahamut

level 74

Dec 5, 2018

Recently updated one of my own diaspora quizzes. Diaspora of the Philippines

gzx5

level 53

Dec 5, 2018

I seem to have not fully understood the answer to this before. Isn't there are a connection between Turkish and Turkic aside from Turkish being a Turkic language? If so what is it?