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Chechens

Нохчий Noxçiy
Total population
c. 2 million[1]
Regions with significant populations
Russia	1,431,360[2]
Chechnya	1,206,551[3]
Dagestan	93,658[3]
Ingushetia	18,765[3]
Moscow Oblast	14,524[3]
Stavropol Krai	11,980[3]
Rostov Oblast	11,449[3]
Volgograd Oblast	9,649[3]
Astrakhan Oblast	7,229[3]
Tyumen Oblast	6,889[3]
European Union       France       Austria       Belgium       Germany       Sweden       Poland       Denmark	130,000 (2009)[4]
Turkey	100,000[5][6]
Kazakhstan	32,894[7]
Jordan	12,000–30,000[8]
Iraq	11,000[9]
Georgia	10,100 (including Kist people)
Syria	6,000–35,000[10][11]
Egypt	5,000[5]
Ukraine	2,877[12]
United Arab Emirates	2,000–3,000[13]
Finland	636[14]
United States	250–1,000[15][16]
Latvia	192[17] Data figures from 2001 to 2021; see also Chechen diaspora.
Languages
Chechen
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Nakh peoples (Ingush, Bats)

The Chechens (/ˈtʃɛtʃɛnz, tʃəˈtʃɛnz/;^[18] Chechen: Нохчий, Noxçiy, Old Chechen: Нахчой, Naxçoy) are an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group native to the North Caucasus who refer to themselves as Nokhchiy (pronounced [no̞xtʃʼiː]; singular Nokhchi, Nokhcho, Nakhchuo or Nakhtche). The vast majority of Chechens are Muslim and they adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam. Chechens live in Chechnya, a Caucasian republic of Russia.