Total population | |
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~26,505,000 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Hungary | 9,982,000 |
Finland | 4,948,400 |
Russia | 2,322,000 |
United States | 2,288,100 |
Romania | 1,227,623 |
Estonia | 936,000 |
Slovakia | 520,500 |
Sweden | 507,600 |
Canada | ~450,000 |
Serbia | 253,899 |
Ukraine | 156,600 |
Norway | 60,000–100,000 |
Languages | |
Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian | |
Religion | |
various Christian faiths, Shamanism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Samoyedic peoples |
The Finno-Ugric peoples are any of several peoples of North-West Eurasia who speak languages of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, such as the Khanty, Mansi, Hungarians, Maris, Mordvins, Sámi, Estonians, Karelians, Finns, Udmurts and Komis.
The four most numerous Finno-Ugric peoples are the Hungarians (13–14 million), Finns (6–7 million), Estonians (1.1 million) and Mordvins (744,000). The first three of these have their own independent states – Hungary, Finland, and Estonia. The traditional area of the indigenous Sami people is in Northern Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula in Northwest Russia and is known as Sápmi.
Some other Finno-Ugric peoples have autonomous republics in Russia: Karelians (Republic of Karelia), Komi (Komi Republic), Udmurts (Udmurt Republic), Mari (Mari El Republic), and Mordvins (Moksha and Erzya; Republic of Mordovia).