Khakassia

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Khakassia or Khakasiya (Russian: Хака́сия or Хака́ссия) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) located in south central Siberia.

It has an area of 61,900 km² (ranked 49th). Abakan is the administrative centre of Khakassia, and with a population of around 160,000 making it the largest city.

Khakas is a Turkic language with co-official status in the republic.

1 Time zone
2 Administrative divisions
3 Demographics
4 History
5 Economy
6 Views of Khakasiya
7 See also

[edit] Time zone

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Khakassia is located in the Krasnoyarsk Time Zone (KRAT/KRAST). UTC offset is +0700 (KRAT)/+0800 (KRAST).

[edit] Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Khakassia

[edit] Demographics

Population: 538,200 (2006 est.)^{[citation needed]}; 546,072 (2002 Census)

Birth rate was 11.89 in 2004.

Ethnic groups: According to the 2002 Russian Census, ethnic Russians at 438,395 make up 80.3% of the republic's population, while ethnic Khakas at 65,421 are only 12.0%. Other groups include Ethnic Germans (9,161, or 1.7%), Ukrainians (8,360, or 1.5%), Tatars (4,001, or 0.7%), and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population.

[edit] History

The Khakas are a Turkic-speaking people related to the Kyrgyz (they may be descendants of Kyrgyz who remained behind when the bulk of that nation began migrating southwest). Traditionally they lived in the middle reaches of the Yenisei river in Siberia and were nomadic herders. In the last two centuries they have become Christianized (converts to Russian Orthodoxy) and forced to become sedentary by the Russian government. The region was established on 10 October 1930. It was given republic status in 1991.

[edit] Economy

The main industries in the republic are coal mining, ore mining, and timber.

[edit] Views of Khakasiya

Khakasiya view (photo 2000).	Eagle on megalith near village Kazanovka in Republic Khakasiya, Russian Federation (photo 2000).	Megalith near village Kazanovka in Republic Khakasiya, Russian Federation (photo 2000).	Megalith near village Safronovo in Republic Khakasiya, Russian Federation (photo 2000).
Megalith near village Safronovo in Republic Khakasiya, Russian Federation (photo 2000).	Rape valley in Republic Khakasiya, Russian Federation (photo 2000).	Sunset near town Askiz in Republic Khakasiya, Russian Federation (photo 2000).	Rape valley in Republic Khakasiya, Russian Federation (photo 2000).
Khakasiyan megalith (photo 2000).

[edit] See also

Music of Khakassia

Administrative divisions of Russia

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Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk¹ \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk² \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tula \| Tver \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous okrugs	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia

On January 1, 2007, Evenk and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
On January 1, 2008, Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug will be merged into Irkutsk Oblast.
On July 1 2007, Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug will merge to form Kamchatka Krai.

Federal districts

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Turkic-speaking nations and autonomous entities with an official Turkic language

Western Turkic
Image:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan¹ • Image:Flag of Bashkortostan.svg Bashkortostan² • Image:Flag of Chuvashia.svg Chuvashia² • Image:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus (Image:Flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.svg Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus³) • Image:Flagge Gagausien 01 01.png Gagauzia⁴ • Image:Flag of Kabardino-Balkaria.svg Kabardino-Balkaria² •
Image:Flag of Karachay-Cherkessia.svg Karachay-Cherkessia² • Image:Flag of Karakalpakstan.svg Karakalpakstan⁵ • Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan • Image:Flag of Tatarstan.svg Tatarstan² • Image:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Turkmenistan • Image:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey • Image:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan • Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xinjiang⁶

Eastern Turkic
Image:Flag of Altai Republic (bordered).svg Altai Republic² • Image:Flag of Khakassia.svg Khakassia² • Image:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan • Image:Flag of Sakha.svg Sakha² • Image:Flag of Tuva.svg Tuva²

Notes: (1) Includes the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic; (2) A federal subject of the Russian Federation; (3) See Cyprus dispute;
(4) Gagauzia is a territorial autonomous unit of Moldova; (5) Karakalpakstan is an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan; (6) Xinjiang Uyghur is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China

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