Volga Tatars

Volga Tatars
татарлар
	Möxämmät-Ämin, three-time ruler of Kazan Khanate, mentioned in the Tsar Book during 16th century.
Total population
	c. 6.2 million
Regions with significant populations
Russia: Tatarstan: 2,012,571 (Official); Bashkortostan: 1,009,295; Moscow: 149,043;	5,310,649
Uzbekistan	467,829
Kazakhstan	203,371
Ukraine	73,304
Turkmenistan	36,355
Kyrgyzstan	28,334
Azerbaijan	25,900
Turkey	25,500
China	5,000
Lithuania	4,000
Estonia	1,981
Finland	600-700
Languages
	Tatar, Russian
Religion
	Predominantly Sunni Islam with Orthodox Christian and irreligious minority
Related ethnic groups
	Bashkirs, Chuvash, Nogais, Crimean Tatars

The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars (Tatar: татарлар, romanized: tatarlar; Russian: татары, romanized: tatary) are an Eastern European Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of European Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Their native language is Tatar, a language of the Kipchak-Bolgar subdivision of the Turkic language family. The predominant religion is Sunni Islam.

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