Khanty

Khanty
Khanty from the Ob river
Total population
33,000
Regions with significant populations
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia)
 Russia31,467 (2021)
 Ukraine100 (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 9,985in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 495 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 109 lived in Sverdlovsk Oblast.