Yugurs
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The Yugurs, Yughurs, Yugu (; Western Yugur: Sarığ yoğır; Eastern Yugur: Shera yogor), traditionally known as Yellow Uyghurs or Yellow Uygurs, are a Turko-Mongol ethnic group and one of China's 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, consisting of 14,706 persons, according to the 2020 census. The Yugur live primarily in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Gansu. They are mostly Tibetan Buddhists. The majority of Yugurs speak a Turkic language, while Mongolic and Chinese are also used in eastern provinces.
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- A Yugur family in Lanzhou, Gansu, 1944
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- 14,706 (2020 census) center|frameless|260x260px Distribution of Yugur autonomous prefectures and counties in mainland China
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- Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Gansu, China
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- Neo-Uyghur (Western Yugur), Eastern Yugur
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The Yugurs, Yughurs, Yugu (; Western Yugur: Sarığ yoğır; Eastern Yugur: Shera yogor), traditionally known as Yellow Uyghurs or Yellow Uygurs, are a Turko-Mongol ethnic group and one of China's 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, consisting of 14,706 persons, according to the 2020 census. The Yugur live primarily in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Gansu. They are mostly Tibetan Buddhists. The majority of Yugurs speak a Turkic language, while Mongolic and Chinese are also used in eastern provinces.
==History== The Turkic-speaking Yugurs are considered to be the descendants of a group of Old Uyghurs who fled from Mongolia southwards to Gansu after the collapse of the Uyghur Khaganate in 840, where they established the prosperous Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom (870–1036) with capital near present Zhangye at the base of the Qilian Mountains in the valley of the Ejin River.