The Khanty, also known in older literature as Ostyaks, 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 9,985—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 495 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 109 lived in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Khanty from the Ob river
Khanty man in Tomsk, 2006.
Khanty family standing in front of a chum, their traditional tent
Khanty (Khn) and other Uralic populations in a PCA.
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, commonly shortened to Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subject of Russia. It has a population of 1,532,243 as of the 2010 Census. It's administrative center is located at Khanty-Mansiysk.
Orthodox Church of the Resurrection in Khanty-Mansiysk. Orthodox Christianity is the main religion in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Image: Lenin st., Surgut, Russia 04
Image: Nizhnevartovsk, lake Komsomolskoye
