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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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# 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
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Level 80
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
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Level ∞
Sep 26, 2018
Thanks, this has been added. The source data group the European Union together for some reason.
someone2018
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Level 82
Oct 4, 2018
In all fairness minority groups in a country tend to emigrate more. In Turkey, the Kurds and Armenians particularly want out.
PenguinTorpedo
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Level 39
Oct 22, 2020
ok this is confusing af. lmao
PenguinTorpedo
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Level 39
Oct 22, 2020
turk a turkish turkic
promastermage
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Level 65
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
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Level ∞
Sep 27, 2018
Revised the number down to 9 million.
jf15
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Level 54
Sep 27, 2018
Relatively easy quiz when you think of geography, including Kurdistan, and also emigration.
lubi
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Level 72
Oct 1, 2018
The Kurds are not a Turkic group.
TomatosRaafatos
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Level 70
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
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Level 55
Dec 5, 2018
@HatemAli

There are groups known as the Syrian and Iraqi Turkmen.

PenguinTorpedo
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Level 39
Oct 22, 2020
arent them jus immigrants from turkey??
MertFromTurkey
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Level 53
Nov 16, 2020
No, they are not immigrants. You know that Turkish empires settled from Mongolia to Egypt, from India to Bosnia. All of them lived in those regions when there were Turkish states. Turks began to migrate to other countries after the 1960s. These are developed countries like Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands.

Besides, it should be added that Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are Turkish states.

The original region of the Turks is not Anatolia but Central Asia, Mongolia and the Siberian region of Russia.

JessieTan04
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Level 28
Sep 27, 2018
wow china! i wasn't expecting that.
kogatora
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Level 82
Sep 27, 2018
the xinjiang area has many muslims a lot of whom would be turkic.
skoldpadda
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Level 65
Sep 30, 2018
China has about half a dozen Turkic groups.
EvaR
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Level 63
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
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Level 74
Dec 5, 2018
@EvaR It's not about being Turkic, though...
PenguinTorpedo
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Level 39
Oct 22, 2020
@WillemLAif its about not being chinese...
MiracleMax
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Level 70
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
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Level 32
Sep 28, 2018
1% of people didn't think of Turkey...
someone2018
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Level 82
Oct 4, 2018
Some prefer ham.
Prot
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Level 55
Dec 23, 2018
Or they just stay Hungary.
JWatson24
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Level 63
Aug 7, 2020
Don't want too much Greece on their food
Zaquking
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Level 55
Oct 15, 2020
I'm good as long as it's served on fine China
cornflakesfu
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Level 81
Dec 5, 2018
And 8% didn't get Turkmenistan.
EricStrong
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Level 30
Dec 5, 2018
Some people don't know Turkmenistan is a country. How they didn't get Turkey tho...
JonOfKent
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Level 44
Apr 24, 2020
I always forget one of those stans. I'm sure it's a different one each time. This time it was Tajikistan. Ho hum.
Jorissie
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Level 78
Dec 5, 2018
So there's almost twice as much Turks living outside of turkey as inside of turkey
camus
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Level 74
Dec 5, 2018
Turks ≠ Turkic people
ander217
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Level 79
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
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Level 80
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
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Level 80
Dec 5, 2018
Recently updated one of my own diaspora quizzes. Diaspora of the Philippines
gzx5
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Level 55
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?
Mertiy
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Level 40
Sep 9, 2019
Turkic peoples are a diverse grouping of people who are historically related and share the same language family. Turks are just one of them, the most populous and the most influential of them too; so that's why many people don't know about other Turkic peoples or they don't know they are related to the Turks
NokiaQFikec
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Level 31
Jul 10, 2020
Missed Turkey everithing else is ok
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