Uyghurs
Turkic ethnic group of Central and East Asia
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Summary
Uyghurs is an ethnic group[1]. Uyghurs ranks in the top 0.18% of ethnic group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (37,351 views/month, #8 of 4,529).[2]
Key Facts
- Native language: Uyghur[3], Chinese[4]
- Religion or worldview: Sunni Islam[5]
- Country: People's Republic of China[6], Kazakhstan[7], Kyrgyzstan[8], Uzbekistan[9], Russia[10], Turkmenistan[11]
- Ancestral home: Xinjiang[12]
- Flag: flag of East Turkestan[13]
- Subclass of: Turkic peoples[14]
- Part of: Turkic peoples[15]
- Commons category: Uyghur people[16]
- Topic's main category: Category:Uyghurs[17]
- Commons gallery: Uyghur people[18]
- Population: 12,314,800[19]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[20], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[23], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[25]
- Demonym: uigur[26], uigură[27], uiguri[28], uigure[29]
- Different from: Wigger[30]
- History of topic: history of the Uyghur people[31]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[32]
Why It Matters
Uyghurs has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Uyghurs is known by 148 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]