Kyrgyz

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The Kyrgyz are a Turkic-Mongol people who live primarily in Kyrgyzstan. Their traditional livelihood was pastoral nomadism. The former Soviet government both encouraged and forced settlement into permanent Soviet-style settlements in cities and towns and on collective and state farms. The Kyrgyz are Sunni Muslims.

Identifier

Region

• Asia

Subregion

• Central Asia

Subsistence Type

• pastoralists

Countries

• Afghanistan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Kazakhstan
• Pakistan