Uzbek people facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Uzbek people
Total population
Uzbek people
c. 30 million
Regions with significant populations
Uzbekistan	23,929,309 (2013)
Afghanistan	2,799,726 (2013)
Tajikistan	1,210,236 (2013)
Kyrgyzstan	980,000 (2009)
Russia	499,862
Kazakhstan	490,000
Saudi Arabia	300,000
Turkmenistan	260,000
Australia	80,000
Pakistan	70,133 (2005)
United States	50,795 (2014)
Turkey	45,000
Ukraine	22,400
China	14,800
Mongolia	560
Languages
Uzbek
Religion
Mainly Islam (predominantly Sunni or Cultural Muslims), minority non-religious. Historically Tengriism
Related ethnic groups
Other Turkic peoples

Uzbeks are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group who mainly live in Central Asia countries. Uzbeks are the majority of people living in Uzbekistan. They are a minority group in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and China. A few live farther away. Uzbeks speak Uzbek language of the Turkic language family.

Images for kids

Female statuette bearing the kaunakes. Chlorite and limestone, Bactria, beginning of the 2nd millennium BC
Clothing of Uzbek men, Khiva
Timur feasts in Samarkand
A lithograph of two Uzbek Khans from Afghanistan in 1841.
The Defence of the Samarkand Citadel in 1868. From the Russian Illustrated Magazine "Niva" (1872).
Uzbeks in Samarkand in 1964
Uzbek men
raditional Uzbek costume circa 1840s
zbek woman and her child, in traditional robes 19th-20th cen.
hief Minister of the Khiva Khanate, Islom khodja in the traditional fur hat, 1910