Khanty
Khanty from the Ob river | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 33,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia) | |
| Russia | 31,467 (2021) |
| Ukraine | 100 (2001) |
| Languages | |
| Khanty, Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Mansi | |
The Khanty (Khanty: ха́нты, romanized: khanty), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (Russian: остяки), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2021 Census, 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of whom 19,568 were living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 9,985—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 495 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 109 lived in Sverdlovsk Oblast.