Chechen people who live outside of Chechnya
TheChechen diaspora (Chechen :Нохчийн диаспора ,romanized: Noxçiyn diaspora Chechen people who live outside ofChechnya ; this includes Chechens who live in other parts of Russia. There are also significant Chechen populations in othersubdivisions of Russia (especially inDagestan ,Ingushetia andMoscow Oblast ).
Outside Russia, Chechens are mainly descendants of people who had to leave Chechnya during the 19th centuryCaucasian War (which led to theannexation of Chechnya by theRussian Empire ) and the 1944Stalinist deportation to theSoviet Central Asia in the case of Kazakhstan. More recently, tens of thousands ofChechen refugees settled in the European Union and elsewhere as the result of theFirst andSecond Chechen Wars , especially in the wave of emigration to theWest after 2002.[ 1]
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Statistics by country [ edit ] Country Official figures % Current est. Chechen population Further information Russia 1,674,854 (2021 census ) [ 2] — Turkey 12,626 (1965 census, Chechen speakers)[ 3] Approx.100,000 [ 4] Chechens in Turkey France — — approx.67,000 [ 5] Chechens in France Kazakhstan 32,252 (2013 annual statistics) [ 6] — — Austria — — approx.30,000 − 40,000 [ 7] Chechens in Austria Belgium — — approx.17,000 [ 5] — Jordan — — approx.12,000 − 30,000 [ 8] Chechens in Jordan Germany — — approx. 50,000[ 9] — Egypt — — approx.5,000 [ 10] — Syria — — approx.4,000 [ 10] Chechens in Syria Ukraine 2,877 (2001 census ) [ 11] — — Kyrgyzstan 1,875 (2009 census) [ 12] — — Georgia 1,271 (2002 census) [ 13] — — Uzbekistan 1,006 (1989 census) [ 14] — — Denmark — — approx.1,000 [ 5] — United States — — approx.1,000 [ 5] — Finland 636 (2017 annual statistics, Chechen speakers) [ 15] — — Azerbaijan 456 (1989 census) [ 16] — — Poland 338 (2011 census) [ 17] — — Canada 136–189 (2023 statistics)[ 18] [ 19] — — Moldova 108 (2004 census) [ 20] — — Lithuania 72 (1989 census) [ 21] — —
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