Uralic Peoples
Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples of northern Eurasia, from the Baltic and Carpathians to the Siberian tundra.
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Finnic10 groups
Äyrämöiset
Ingria, around St. Petersburg in present-day Leningrad Oblast, Russia; ancestral origin in Äyräpää on the Karelian Isthmus. Descendants also live in Finland, Estonia and Russian Karelia.
Forest Finns
Forested uplands of central Sweden (Värmland, Dalarna, Hälsingland and neighboring provinces) and eastern Norway (Finnskogen, Innlandet); ancestral origin in Savo, eastern Finland
Ingrian Finns
Ingria, the historical region around St. Petersburg in today's Leningrad Oblast, Russia; now also widely in Finland, Estonia, Russian Karelia and other parts of Russia.
Izhorians
Ingria, the lowland between the Narva and Neva rivers south of the Gulf of Finland, now Leningrad Oblast, Russia; today mainly the Soikkola peninsula and the lower Luga near Kingisepp.
Karelians
Karelia, split between the Republic of Karelia in northwestern Russia and eastern Finland, with a Tver Karelian enclave northwest of Moscow
Finno-Ugric5 groups
Csángós
Moldavia region of eastern Romania, chiefly Bacău County along the Siret and Trotuș valleys, with smaller communities in the Ghimeș pass and around Săcele near Brașov, Romania
Erzya
Middle Volga region of Russia: eastern Mordovia and the Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Samara and Orenburg regions, with communities in Chuvashia, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.
Merya
Upper Volga and Klyazma basin around Lake Nero and Lake Pleshcheyevo, in present-day Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo and Vladimir regions of Russia.
Ugric branch3 groups
Black Magyars
The Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea, then the Carpathian Basin in present-day Hungary; where they lived within the basin is debated, with some scholars placing them around Pécs.
Other Uralic groups18 groups
Besermyan
Villages of the Cheptsa river valley in northwestern Udmurtia, Russia, near the border with Kirov Oblast.
Kamasins
Sayan Mountain foothills along the Kan and Mana rivers, southern Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Khanty
Middle and lower Ob River basin in Western Siberia, Russia: Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Yugra) and southern Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, with small communities in Tomsk Oblast
Mokshas
Western Republic of Mordovia and the Moksha River valley across Penza, Ryazan and Tambov oblasts, Russia, with communities in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Samara and Orenburg oblasts and Siberia
Muromians
Middle Oka River valley around the city of Murom, in present-day Vladimir Oblast and adjacent Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Nenets
Arctic tundra of northern Russia, from the Kanin Peninsula and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug across the Yamal Peninsula to the Taymyr district, concentrated in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Palóc
The northern hill country of Hungary (Nógrád, Heves and Borsod counties) and the adjoining border districts of southern Slovakia.
Selkup
Western Siberia, Russia: the middle Ob basin in Tomsk Oblast, and the Taz and Turukhan rivers in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Krasnoyarsk Krai
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