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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
75 m
Turkey
25.2 m
Uzbekistan
15–20 m
Iran
12.8 m
Russia
12.3 m
Kazakhstan
11.7 m
China
9.0 m
Azerbaijan
4.5–5.3 m
Afghanistan
# People
Country
4.5 m
Kyrgyzstan
4.2 m
Turkmenistan
> 3 m
Germany
1.5 m
Iraq
1.2 m
Tajikistan
1.0 m
United States
900 k
Syria
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Level 85
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?
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Level ∞
Sep 26, 2018
Thanks, this has been added. The source data group the European Union together for some reason.
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Level 89
Oct 4, 2018
In all fairness minority groups in a country tend to emigrate more. In Turkey, the Kurds and Armenians particularly want out.
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Level 49
Oct 22, 2020
ok this is confusing af. lmao
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Level 49
Oct 22, 2020
turk a turkish turkic
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Level 59
Apr 30, 2023
There are 30 A. Out of those 3/4 are B. But when why are there only 9 B in Germany? Do Bs like Germany less than the other As?
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Level 64
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

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Level ∞
Sep 27, 2018
Revised the number down to 9 million.
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Level 63
Sep 27, 2018
Relatively easy quiz when you think of geography, including Kurdistan, and also emigration.
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Level 76
Oct 1, 2018
The Kurds are not a Turkic group.
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Level 73
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?
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Level 53
Dec 5, 2018
@HatemAli

There are groups known as the Syrian and Iraqi Turkmen.

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Level 49
Oct 22, 2020
arent them jus immigrants from turkey??
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Level 68
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.

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Level 26
Sep 27, 2018
wow china! i wasn't expecting that.
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Level 93
Sep 27, 2018
the xinjiang area has many muslims a lot of whom would be turkic.
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Level 70
Sep 30, 2018
China has about half a dozen Turkic groups.
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Level 66
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
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Level 53
Jun 25, 2023
Sadly, so many people like you are brainwashed by western media and know really nothing about true China.
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Level 76
Dec 5, 2018
@EvaR It's not about being Turkic, though...
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Level 49
Oct 22, 2020
@WillemLAif its about not being chinese...
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Level 75
Apr 29, 2023
One person's Xinjiang is another's East Turkestan.
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Level 75
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.
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Level 31
Sep 28, 2018
1% of people didn't think of Turkey...
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Level 89
Oct 4, 2018
Some prefer ham.
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Level 56
Dec 23, 2018
Or they just stay Hungary.
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Level 71
Aug 7, 2020
Don't want too much Greece on their food
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Level 68
Oct 15, 2020
I'm good as long as it's served on fine China
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Level 47
Apr 29, 2023
I’m fine provided there’s a bit of Chile
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Level 65
May 1, 2023
Everybody's Ghana love it!
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Level 64
Apr 8, 2021
I hope everyone Finnished their food
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Level 86
Dec 5, 2018
And 8% didn't get Turkmenistan.
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Level 27
Dec 5, 2018
Some people don't know Turkmenistan is a country. How they didn't get Turkey tho...
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Level 56
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.
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Level 51
May 1, 2023
The margin of error?
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Level 88
Dec 5, 2018
So there's almost twice as much Turks living outside of turkey as inside of turkey
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Level 78
Dec 5, 2018
Turks ≠ Turkic people
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Level 75
Oct 29, 2023
Have you ever heard of Pan-turkism? Turks profess dominion over all Turkic groups and most of them dream of a restored Ottoman Empire including all these groups
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Level 32
Oct 13, 2022
People from Turkey are Turkish, not Turkic.
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Level 42
Mar 16, 2023
They're both.
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Level 75
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?
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Level 82
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.
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Level 82
Dec 5, 2018
Recently updated one of my own diaspora quizzes. Diaspora of the Philippines
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Level 71
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?
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Level 39
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
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Level 59
Jul 10, 2020
Missed Turkey everithing else is ok
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Level 46
Jun 24, 2021
how did that even happen
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Level 32
Aug 19, 2021
Now Turkey's population is nearly 83-84 million and more than 80 million speaks Turkish just here.
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Level 32
Aug 19, 2021
In the world there are nearly 220 million people who speaks Turkish.
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Level 37
Apr 14, 2022
Turks population in Turkey is only 59 million ?

bruh whats your source

Turkey's population %90 is Turkic

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Level 74
Feb 26, 2023
There's a link to the source at the top.
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Level 71
Apr 29, 2023
As a side note, I'm willing to bet that a lot of people in Pakistan and India, especially Muslims, have Turkic ancestors from several centuries of Turkic (Delhi Sultanate/Mughal) rule. That being said, I doubt most of them would be considered Turkic today after the subsequent centuries of assimilation and intermarriage.
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Level 75
Apr 29, 2023
Turkey is the least Turkic among the Turkic nation. There's no way the 75M is accurate.
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Level 68
Apr 29, 2023
Missed United States 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Level 72
Apr 29, 2023
USA has so many different immigrant ethnic groups that I always try it on these quizzes. Overall size also helps
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Level 67
Apr 29, 2023
Exactly
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Level 40
Apr 29, 2023
germany is sad
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Level 75
Apr 29, 2023
Why so?
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Level 67
Apr 29, 2023
1:27
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Level 43
May 1, 2023
we could argue that, hungary is turkic but they arent really turkic anymore its just the origin of the nation
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Level 48
Dec 28, 2023
I honestly think that Turkmenistan should be second.
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Level 62
Feb 16, 2024
There is around 1m turks living in Bulgaria and there is huge population of tatars in Ukraine and gagauz in Ukraine and Moldova.