Official Languages

Languages spoken here

Bashkir (secondary) · Bulgarian (secondary) · Chechen (secondary) · Chuvash (secondary) · Eastern Mari (secondary) · Erzya (secondary) · Gagauz (secondary) · Georgian (secondary) · Ingush (secondary) · Kazakh (secondary) · Khakas (secondary) · Kyrgyz (secondary) · Lithuanian (secondary) · Nogai (secondary) · Northern Kurdish (secondary) · Plautdietsch (secondary) · Polish (secondary) · Polish (Goralian) (secondary) · Romanian (secondary) · Romanian (Moldovan) (secondary) · Russian (secondary) · Russian (Pre-1918) (secondary) · Tajik (secondary) · Tatar (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Udmurt (secondary) · Ukrainian (secondary) · Uyghur (secondary) · Western Armenian (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Kazakhstan

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Kazakh	14675000	Kazakh	Islam
Russian	3152000	Russian	Christianity
Uzbek, Northern	721000	Uzbek, Northern	Islam
Ukrainian	395000	Ukrainian	Christianity
Uyghur	325000	Uyghur	Islam
German	237000	Russian	Christianity
Tatar	233000	Tatar	Islam
Azerbaijani	165000	Azerbaijani, North	Islam
Korean	128000	Russian	Non-Religious
Turk	98000	Turkish	Islam
Dungan	92000	Dungan	Islam
Belarusian	79000	Russian	Christianity
Tajik	62000	Tajik	Islam
Deaf	57000	Language unknown	Unknown
Kurd, Kurmanji	54000	Kurdish, Northern	Islam
Turk, Meskhetian	53000	Russian	Islam
Mennonite	45000	Plautdietsch	Christianity
Kyrgyz	43000	Kyrgyz	Islam
Polish	37000	Polish	Christianity
Chechen	36000	Chechen	Islam
Karakalpak	31000	Karakalpak	Islam
Bashkir	21000	Bashkort	Islam
Ingush	19000	Ingush	Islam
Moldovan	18000	Romanian	Christianity
Armenian	17000	Armenian, Western	Christianity
Greek	13000	Russian	Christianity
Mordvinian	10000	Erzya	Christianity
Mari, Low	8800	Mari, Meadow	Christianity
Chuvash	8600	Chuvash	Christianity
Mongol, Khalka	7300	Mongolian, Peripheral	Buddhism
Domari	7100	Russian	Islam
Udmurt	6900	Udmurt	Christianity
Bulgarian	6200	Bulgarian	Christianity
Lithuanian	6100	Lithuanian	Christianity
Georgian	5900	Georgian	Christianity
Lezgin	5600	Lezgi	Islam
Mari, Eastern	5100	Mari, Hill	Christianity
Romani, Sinte	5000	Romani, Sinte	Islam
Jewish, Eastern Yiddish-speaking	4300	Russian	Judaism
Balkar	2600	Karachay-Balkar	Islam
Ossette	2000	Ossetic	Christianity
Karachay	1900	Karachay-Balkar	Islam
Komi-Permyat	900	Komi-Permyak	Christianity
Lak	800	Lak	Islam
Arab, Uzbeki	700	Arabic, Uzbeki	Islam
Gagauz	600	Gagauz	Christianity
Karaite	600	Kazakh	Judaism
Tatar, Khakass	500	Khakas	Christianity
Chuvan	500	Chuvash	Christianity
Tatar, Nogai	500	Nogai	Islam

Languages

42 languages recorded here.

Arabic, Uzbeki

Armenian, Western

Azerbaijani, North

Bashkort

Bulgarian

Chechen

Chuvash

Dungan

Erzya

Gagauz

Georgian

Ingush

Karachay-Balkar

Karakalpak

Kazakh

Khakas

Komi-Permyak

Kurdish, Northern

Kyrgyz

Lak

Language unknown

Lezgi

Lithuanian

Mari, Hill

Mari, Meadow

Mongolian, Peripheral

Nogai

Ossetic

Plautdietsch

Polish

Romani, Sinte

Romanian

Russian

Shor

Tajik

Tatar

Turkish

Udi

Udmurt

Ukrainian

Uyghur

Uzbek, Northern

All catalogue fields

157 fields recorded

rog3: KZ
iso3: KAZ
iso2: KZ
ctry: Kazakhstan
poplpeoples: 20908000
cntpeoples: 53
cntpeopleslr: 27
poplpeopleslr: 16723000
jpscalectry: 2
rol3officiallanguage: kaz
officiallang: Kazakh
rlg3primary: 6
religionprimary: Islam
percentchristianity: 11.76324592138
percentevangelical: 0.54359818231302
c_10_40window: Y
rog2: ASI
continent: Asia
regioncode: 5
regionname: Asia, Central
workersneeded: 347
harvest_rog3: KZ
harvest_iso3: KAZ
harvest_iso2: KZ
harvest_owcountrycode: KAZA
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: KZ
harvest_countrynumber: 108
harvest_ctry: Kazakhstan
harvest_ctryshort: Kazakhstan
harvest_countrynamechinese: 哈萨克斯坦
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 哈萨克斯坦
harvest_countrynamedutch: Kazachstan
harvest_countrynamefrench: Kazakhstan
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Kazakhstan
harvest_countrynamegerman: Kasachstan
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Kasachstan
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Kazakhstan
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Kazakhstan
harvest_countrynameitalian: Kazakistan
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Kazakistan
harvest_countrynamekorean: 카자흐스탄
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 카자흐스탄
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Kasakhstan
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Kasakhstan
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Cazaquistão
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Cazaquistão
harvest_countrynamerussian: Казахстан
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Казахстан
harvest_countrynamespanish: Kazajistán
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Kazajistán
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Kazakhstan
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Kazakhstan
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: de
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: no
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: Y
harvest_rog2: ASI
harvest_regioncode2414: 12
harvest_regioncode: 5
harvest_unsr: 143
harvest_worldabc: B
harvest_capital: Astana
harvest_population: 20844000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/kazakhstan.html
harvest_prayercastvimeourl: 70051142
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-kz.pdf
harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/kazakhstan
harvest_persecutionrankingod: 45
harvest_persecutionrankingodlink: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/kazakhstan
harvest_jpscale: 2
harvest_c_10_40window: Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: N
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank: 27
harvest_bibleshortagerank: 44
harvest_bibleaccessurl: https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/KZ_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang: 0.7
harvest_owpctcharismatic: 0.34449574
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 3.5
harvest_owcountrypage: kazakhstan
harvest_literacyrate: 99
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 57
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: kaz
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: rus
harvest_rlg3primary: 6
harvest_pctanimist: 0.03
harvest_pctbahai: 0
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0.15
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 0
harvest_pctislam: 53.68
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0.03
harvest_pctnonreligious: 33.94
harvest_pctother: 0.02
harvest_pctchristian: 12.15
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 0.83
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 0.11
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 0.88
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 9.82
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0.28
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 0.23
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A015
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.794
harvest_hdirank: 56
harvest_internetusers: 76.8
harvest_flashmapzoom: 325
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -162
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -52
harvest_googlemapzoom: 4
harvest_googlemaplat: 46
harvest_googlemaplng: 68
harvest_ctrylatitude: 48.019573
harvest_ctrylongitude: 66.92368399999999
harvest_securitylevel: 2
harvest_ethnolinguisticmap: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/casia_ethnic_93.jpg
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/kazakhstan/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 202
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 1.170540464855783
harvest_v59country: Y
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=kz&joshua=kz
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-kazakhstan
harvest_internetusage: 79
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2018
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/kazakhstan/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 1049151
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 2717300
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 16
harvest_countryphonecode: 7
harvest_wincountryprofile: http://win1040.com/page.php?id=562
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 11.2
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 0.7
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 24.66
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 0.6
harvest_stonyground: Y
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .kz
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kazakhstan
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00