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
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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63 Comments

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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?

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.

Level 49

Oct 22, 2020

ok this is confusing af. lmao

Level 49

Oct 22, 2020

turk a turkish turkic

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?

Level 63

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

Level ∞

Sep 27, 2018

Revised the number down to 9 million.

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.

Level 74

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.

Level 49

Oct 22, 2020

arent them jus immigrants from turkey??

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Level 70

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.

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.

Level 71

Sep 30, 2018

China has about half a dozen Turkic groups.

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Level 67

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

Level 52

Jun 25, 2023

Sadly, so many people like you are brainwashed by western media and know really nothing about true China.

Level 76

Dec 5, 2018

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

Level 49

Oct 22, 2020

@WillemLAif its about not being chinese...

Level 76

Apr 29, 2023

One person's Xinjiang is another's East Turkestan.

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Level 74

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.

Level 71

Aug 7, 2020

Don't want too much Greece on their food

Level 68

Oct 15, 2020

I'm good as long as it's served on fine China

Level 47

Apr 29, 2023

I’m fine provided there’s a bit of Chile

Level 66

May 1, 2023

Everybody's Ghana love it!

Level 64

Apr 8, 2021

I hope everyone Finnished their food

Level 87

Dec 5, 2018

And 8% didn't get Turkmenistan.

Level 27

Dec 5, 2018

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

Level 57

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.

Level 55

May 1, 2023

The margin of error?

Level 90

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

Level 76

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

Level 32

Oct 13, 2022

People from Turkey are Turkish, not Turkic.

Level 42

Mar 16, 2023

They're both.

Level 51

Sep 1, 2024

Not necessarily. If you live inTurkey, you are Turkish, because you live in Turkey; but, you might not be Turkic, if you are not from a Turkic peoples. Armenians, Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, etc. are all non-Turkic peoples.

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?

Level 81

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.

Level 81

Dec 5, 2018

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

Level 72

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?

Level 38

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

Level 60

Jul 10, 2020

Missed Turkey everithing else is ok

Level 46

Jun 24, 2021

how did that even happen

Level 32

Aug 19, 2021

Now Turkey's population is nearly 83-84 million and more than 80 million speaks Turkish just here.

Level 32

Aug 19, 2021

In the world there are nearly 220 million people who speaks Turkish.

Level 37

Apr 14, 2022

Turks population in Turkey is only 59 million ?

bruh whats your source

Turkey's population %90 is Turkic

Level 76

Feb 26, 2023

There's a link to the source at the top.

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.

Level 76

Apr 29, 2023

Turkey is the least Turkic among the Turkic nation. There's no way the 75M is accurate.

Level 67

Apr 29, 2023

Missed United States 🤦🏻‍♀️

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

Level 69

Apr 29, 2023

Exactly

Level 41

Apr 29, 2023

germany is sad

Level 76

Apr 29, 2023

Why so?

Level 69

Apr 29, 2023

1:27

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

Level 50

Dec 28, 2023

I honestly think that Turkmenistan should be second.

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.

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