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Nogais

Ногайцы · Q192616

language area per Glottologcensus counts
109,042
Russia, census 2021
109,888
sum of censuses in 3 countries, 2001-2021
Turkic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Russia: 109,042 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 3 countries; together they add up to 109,888. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 109,042 people identified with the nationality "Ногайцы" (Nogais)1. That is 0.08% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 11 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Nogai. Glottolog classifies it in the Turkic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Ногайцы» · [1]
109,042
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Nogai» · [2]
461
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Nogai» · [3]
385
Sum across 3 countries109,888

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 52,847 · 48.5%Women 56,195 · 51.5%

Urban and rural

Urban 36,797 · 33.7%Rural 72,245 · 66.3%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Republic of Dagestan
36,944
Stavropol Krai
22,569
Karachay-Cherkess Republic
17,368
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
9,990
Astrakhan Oblast
9,320
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
3,740
Chechen Republic
2,819
Krasnoyarsk Krai
1,772
Moscow Oblast
692
Moscow (city)
539

Groups counted within this nationality

Karagash218

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

Nogai

  1. Turkicturk1311
  2. Common Turkiccomm1245
  3. Kipchak-Turkestankipc1240
  4. Kipchakkipc1239
  5. Southeast Kipchaksout3396
  6. South Kipchaksout2701
  7. Nogainoga1249

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

KazakhsUyghursAzerbaijanisTatarsKyrgyz peopleBashkir peopleChuvash peopleUzbeksKumyk peopleTurkish peopleYakutsTuvansCrimean TatarsKarachaysSalar peopleGagauzBalkarsAltai peopleKhakass peopleTurkmensKryashensKarakalpaksShorsDolgans

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Kazakhstan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ukraine, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)