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href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwa" title="Tiwa – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Tiwa" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%B1%E1%89%AB" title="ቱቫ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ቱቫ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7" title="توفا – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="توفا" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuv%C3%A1" title="Tuvá – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Tuvá" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%B1va" title="Tıva – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Tıva" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7" title="تووا – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="تووا" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE" title="তুভা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="তুভা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D2%BB%D1%8B" title="Тыва Республикаһы – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Тыва Республикаһы" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тува – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Тува" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тува – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Тува" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тува – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Тува" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touva" title="Touva – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Touva" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Тыва Улас – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Тыва Улас" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuv%C3%A0" title="Tuvà – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Tuvà" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respublika_Tyva" title="Respublika Tyva – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Respublika Tyva" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twfa" title="Twfa – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Twfa" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikken_Tyva" title="Republikken Tyva – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Republikken Tyva" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwa" title="Tuwa – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Tuwa" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5va" title="Tõva – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Tõva" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%A4%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%AC" title="Δημοκρατία της Τιβά – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Δημοκρατία της Τιβά" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C" title="Тува Республикась – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Тува Республикась" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuv%C3%A1" title="Tuvá – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Tuvá" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvio" title="Tuvio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Tuvio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7" title="تووا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="تووا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touva" title="Touva – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Touva" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BBva" title="Tûva – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Tûva" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BAva" title="Túva – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Túva" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep%C3%BAblica_dos_Tuva" title="República dos Tuva – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="República dos Tuva" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva_Khiung-f%C3%B2-koet" title="Tuva Khiung-fò-koet – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Tuva Khiung-fò-koet" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%88%AC%EB%B0%94_%EA%B3%B5%ED%99%94%EA%B5%AD" title="투바 공화국 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="투바 공화국" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D5%AB%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB_%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Տիվայի Հանրապետություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Տիվայի Հանրապետություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE" title="तूवा – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="तूवा" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwa" title="Tuwa – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Tuwa" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republik_Tuva" title="Republik Tuva – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Republik Tuva" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ik mw-list-item"><a href="https://ik.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Inupiaq" lang="ik" hreflang="ik" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Iñupiatun" data-language-local-name="Inupiaq" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Iñupiatun</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%95%D7%91%D7%94_(%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94)" title="טובה (רפובליקה) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="טובה (רפובליקה)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%95%E1%83%90" title="ტუვა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ტუვა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiva" title="Tiva – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Tiva" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_tazavaldu" title="Tuvan tazavaldu – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="Tuvan tazavaldu" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тува – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Тува" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE" title="तुवा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="तुवा" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%95%E1%83%90" title="ტუვა – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ტუვა" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7" title="توڤا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="توڤا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7" title="تووا – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="تووا" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тува – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Тува" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toeva" title="Toeva – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Toeva" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD" title="トゥヴァ共和国 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="トゥヴァ共和国" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тува – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Тува" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwa" title="Tuwa – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Tuwa" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva_(republikk)" title="Tuva (republikk) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Tuva (republikk)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyva" title="Tyva – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Tyva" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тува – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Тува" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiva" title="Tiva – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Tiva" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7" title="تووا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="تووا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7" title="تووا – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="تووا" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-koi mw-list-item"><a href="https://koi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Komi-Permyak" lang="koi" hreflang="koi" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Перем коми" data-language-local-name="Komi-Permyak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Перем коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwa" title="Tuwa – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Tuwa" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva_Respublikas%C4%B1" title="Tuva Respublikası – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Tuva Respublikası" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%B1va_Cumhuriyeti" title="Tıva Cumhuriyeti – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Tıva Cumhuriyeti" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Tuva" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%ABvaja" title="Tëvaja – 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Тыва – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Тыва" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%98%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%93%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%90%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2" title="สาธารณรัฐตูวา – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="สาธารณรัฐตูวา" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%B6%D1%83%D0%BC%D2%B3%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Ҷумҳурии Тува 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Tuva.svg/300px-Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Tuva.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Tuva.svg/450px-Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Tuva.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Tuva.svg/600px-Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Tuva.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1541" data-file-height="847" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Tuva&params=51_47_N_94_45_E_type:adm1st_region:RU"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°47′N</span> <span class="longitude">94°45′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.783°N 94.750°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.783; 94.750</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Federal_districts_of_Russia" title="Federal districts of Russia">Federal district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Siberian_Federal_District" title="Siberian Federal District">Siberian</a><sup id="cite_ref-FederalDistrict_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FederalDistrict-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Economic_regions_of_Russia" title="Economic regions of Russia">Economic region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/East_Siberian_economic_region" class="mw-redirect" title="East Siberian economic region">East Siberian</a><sup id="cite_ref-EconomicRegion_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EconomicRegion-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">Capital</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kyzyl" title="Kyzyl">Kyzyl</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Body</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Great_Khural_of_Tuva" title="Great Khural of Tuva">Great Khural</a><sup id="cite_ref-Legislature_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Legislature-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Head_of_the_Republic_of_Tuva" title="Head of the Republic of Tuva">Head</a><sup id="cite_ref-HeadTitle_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadTitle-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vladislav_Khovalyg" title="Vladislav Khovalyg">Vladislav Khovalyg</a><sup id="cite_ref-Chairman_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chairman-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-area_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-area-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">168,604 km<sup>2</sup> (65,098 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia#List" title="Federal subjects of Russia">21st</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2021_Russian_census" title="2021 Russian census">2021 census</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-2021census_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021census-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">336,651</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2018)<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-d84f748bde80dac87e899490e943a9ac5d33eca8-v18_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-d84f748bde80dac87e899490e943a9ac5d33eca8-v18-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">321,722</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_subjects_of_Russia_by_population" title="List of federal subjects of Russia by population">76th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">2.0/km<sup>2</sup> (5.2/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">54.6%</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Rural_area" title="Rural area">Rural</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">45.4%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_in_Russia" title="Time in Russia">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B7" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+7">UTC+7</a> (<a href="/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Time" title="Krasnoyarsk Time">MSK+4</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960?uselang=en#P421" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span><sup id="cite_ref-vremeni_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vremeni-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">RU-TY</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Russia" title="Vehicle registration plates of Russia">License plates</a></th><td class="infobox-data">17</td></tr><tr class="17"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OKTMO" title="OKTMO">OKTMO</a> ID</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">93000000</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a><sup id="cite_ref-Languages_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Languages-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rtyva.ru">rtyva<wbr />.ru</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="background:#fff6d9"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="background:#fee8ab">People</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tuvans" title="Tuvans">Tuvan / Tyvans</a><br />Тывалар (<i>Tyvalar</i>)<br />Тувинцы (<i>Tuvincy</i>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="background:#fee8ab">Language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan / Tyvan</a><br />Тыва дыл (<i>Tyva dyl</i>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="background:#fee8ab">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Tuva / Tyva<br />Тува (<i>Tuva</i>)<br />Тыва (<i>Tyva</i>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color:#b0c4de">Tuva</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Mongolian name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Cyrillic_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolian Cyrillic script">Mongolian Cyrillic</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Mongolian-language text"><span lang="mn">Тува</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/SASM/GNC_romanization#Mongolian" title="SASM/GNC romanization">SASM/GNC</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Mongolian-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="mn-Latn">Tuvagiin</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Russian name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Тыва</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Russian-language text"><i lang="ru-Latn">Tyva</i></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;"><a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a> Cyrillic name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a> Cyrillic</th><td class="infobox-data">Тыва Республика</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;"><a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a> Latin name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a> Latin</th><td class="infobox-data">Tyva Respublika</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Tuva</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Тува</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[tʊˈva]</a></span>) or <b>Tyva</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a>: <span lang="tyv">Тыва</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="tyv-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[tʰɤ̀ʋɐ]</a></span>), officially the <b>Republic of Tyva</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Republics_of_Russia" title="Republics of Russia">republic</a> of <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tuva lies at the geographical center of <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>, in southern <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a>. The republic borders the <a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia" title="Federal subjects of Russia">federal subjects</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Altai_Republic" title="Altai Republic">Altai Republic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buryatia" title="Buryatia">Buryatia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irkutsk_Oblast" title="Irkutsk Oblast">Irkutsk Oblast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khakassia" title="Khakassia">Khakassia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Krai" title="Krasnoyarsk Krai">Krasnoyarsk Krai</a>, and shares an international border with <a href="/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia">Mongolia</a> to the south. Tuva has a population of 336,651 (<a href="/wiki/Russian_Census_(2021)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Census (2021)">2021 census</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-2021Census_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021Census-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital city</a> is <a href="/wiki/Kyzyl" title="Kyzyl">Kyzyl</a>, in which more than a third of the population reside. </p><p>Historically part of <a href="/wiki/Outer_Mongolia" title="Outer Mongolia">Outer Mongolia</a> as <a href="/wiki/Tannu_Uriankhai" title="Tannu Uriankhai">Tannu Uriankhai</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a>, the last imperial dynasty of China, Tuva broke away in 1911 as the <a href="/wiki/Uryankhay_Republic" title="Uryankhay Republic">Uryankhay Republic</a> following the <a href="/wiki/1911_Revolution" title="1911 Revolution">Xinhai Revolution</a>, which created the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)" title="Republic of China (1912–1949)">Republic of China</a>. It became a <a href="/wiki/Uryankhay_Krai" title="Uryankhay Krai">Russian protectorate</a> in 1914 and was replaced by the nominally independent <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_People%27s_Republic" title="Tuvan People's Republic">Tuvan People's Republic</a> in 1921 (known officially as Tannu Tuva until 1926),<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> recognized only by its neighbors the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic" title="Mongolian People's Republic">Mongolia</a>, before being annexed into the former in 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A majority of the population are ethnic <a href="/wiki/Tuvans" title="Tuvans">Tuvans</a> who speak Tuvan as their native tongue, while <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> is spoken natively by the <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russian</a> minority; both are official and widely understood in the republic. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Khural_of_Tuva" title="Great Khural of Tuva">Great Khural</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Regional_parliaments_of_Russia" title="Regional parliaments of Russia">regional parliament</a> of Tuva. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Tuva" title="History of Tuva">History of Tuva</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Tuvan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Tuvan people">History of the Tuvan people</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tuva_republic_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Tuva_republic_map.png/250px-Tuva_republic_map.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Tuva_republic_map.png/375px-Tuva_republic_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Tuva_republic_map.png/500px-Tuva_republic_map.png 2x" data-file-width="1047" data-file-height="691" /></a><figcaption>Map of the Tuva Republic</figcaption></figure><p>The territory of Tuva has been controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu" title="Xiongnu">Xiongnu</a> Empire (209 BC – 93 AD) and the <a href="/wiki/Xianbei_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Xianbei state">Xianbei state</a> (93–234), <a href="/wiki/Rouran_Khaganate" title="Rouran Khaganate">Rouran Khaganate</a> (330–555), <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a> (647–682), <a href="/wiki/Yenisei_Kyrgyz_Khaganate" class="mw-redirect" title="Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate">Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate</a> (7th – 13th century), <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol Empire</a> (1206–1271), <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty" title="Yuan dynasty">Yuan dynasty</a> (1271–1368), <a href="/wiki/Northern_Yuan_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Yuan dynasty">Northern Yuan dynasty</a> (1368–1691), <a href="/wiki/Khotgoid_Khanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Khotgoid Khanate">Khotgoid Khanate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zunghar_Khanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Zunghar Khanate">Zunghar Khanate</a> (1634–1758).<sup id="cite_ref-HM_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HM-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Medieval Mongol tribes, including <a href="/wiki/Oirats" title="Oirats">Oirats</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tumed" title="Tumed">Tumeds</a>, inhabited areas which are now part of the Tuvan Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-HM_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HM-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1758 to 1911, Tuva was part of China's <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a> and administered by <a href="/wiki/Mongolia_under_Qing_rule" title="Mongolia under Qing rule">Outer Mongolia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/1911_Revolution" title="1911 Revolution">Xinhai Revolution</a> in China, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Tsarist Russia</a> formed a <a href="/wiki/Separatism" title="Separatism">separatist</a> movement among the <a href="/wiki/Tuvans" title="Tuvans">Tuvans</a> while there were also pro-independence and pro-Mongol groups.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas II of Russia">Tsar Nicholas II</a> agreed to the third petition by Tuva's leadership in 1912, establishing a <a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">protectorate</a> over the then-independent state. Some Russians, such as merchants, travellers, and explorers, had already settled in Tuva at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tuva became nominally independent as the <i><a href="/wiki/Uryankhay_Republic" title="Uryankhay Republic">Uryankhay Republic</a></i> before being turned into a Russian protectorate as <i><a href="/wiki/Uryankhay_Krai" title="Uryankhay Krai">Uryankhay Krai</a></i> under Tsar Nicholas II, on 17 April 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Tuvan capital was established, called <a href="/wiki/Belotsarsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Belotsarsk">Belotsarsk</a> (Белоца́рск; literally, "(Town) of the <a href="/wiki/White_Tsar" class="mw-redirect" title="White Tsar">White Tsar</a>").<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, in 1911, with the collapse of the Qing, Mongolia <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Revolution_of_1911" title="Mongolian Revolution of 1911">seceded from China</a>, entering Russia's sphere of influence. Following the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution of 1917">Russian Revolution of 1917</a> that ended the imperial autocracy, most of Tuva was occupied from 5 July 1918 to 15 July 1919 by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kolchak" title="Alexander Kolchak">Alexander Kolchak</a>'s <a href="/wiki/White_Army" title="White Army">White Russian</a> troops. Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov was named governor of the territory. In the autumn of 1918, the southwestern part was occupied by Chinese troops and the southern part by Mongol troops led by <a href="/wiki/Khatanbaatar_Magsarjav" title="Khatanbaatar Magsarjav">Khatanbaatar Magsarjav</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From July 1919 to February 1920, the communist <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> controlled Tuva but from 19 February 1920 to June 1921 it was <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Mongolia" title="Occupation of Mongolia">occupied by China</a> (governor was Yan Shichao [traditional, Wade–Giles transliteration: Yan Shi-ch'ao]), until their expulsion by the Bolsheviks in 1921. On 14 August 1921, the <a href="/wiki/Bolshevik" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolshevik">Bolsheviks</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_People%27s_Republic" title="Tuvan People's Republic">Tuvan People's Republic</a>, popularly called <i>Tannu-Tuva</i>. In 1926, the capital (Belotsarsk; Khem-Beldyr since 1918) was renamed <a href="/wiki/Kyzyl" title="Kyzyl">Kyzyl</a>, meaning "red". The Tuvan People's Republic was de jure an <a href="/wiki/Independent_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent state">independent state</a> <a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">between the World Wars</a>. The state's ruler, <a href="/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_Communist_Tuva#Heads_of_party" title="List of leaders of Communist Tuva">Chairman</a> <a href="/wiki/Donduk_Kuular" title="Donduk Kuular">Donduk Kuular</a>, sought to strengthen ties with <a href="/wiki/Mongolia_(1911-1924)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolia (1911-1924)">Mongolia</a> and establish <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> as the <a href="/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion">state religion</a>. This unsettled the Soviet Union, which orchestrated <a href="/wiki/1929_Tuvan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1929 Tuvan coup d'état">a coup carried out in 1929</a> by five young Tuvan graduates of Moscow's <a href="/wiki/Communist_University_of_the_Toilers_of_the_East" title="Communist University of the Toilers of the East">Communist University of the Toilers of the East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1930, the pro-Soviet regime discarded the state's <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuvan alphabet">Mongol script in favor of a Latin alphabet</a> designed for Tuva by Russian linguists. In 1943, Cyrillic script replaced Latin. Under the leadership of Party Secretary Salchak Toka, ethnic Russians were granted full citizenship rights and Buddhist and Mongol influences on the Tuvan state and society were systematically curtailed.<sup id="cite_ref-Fotuva_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fotuva-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tuva was annexed by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> in 1944, with the approval of Tuva's <a href="/wiki/Great_Khural_of_Tuva" title="Great Khural of Tuva">Little Khural</a> (parliament), but without a <a href="/wiki/Referendum" title="Referendum">referendum</a> on the issue. It became the <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_Autonomous_Oblast" title="Tuvan Autonomous Oblast">Tuvan Autonomous Oblast</a>, within the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a>, after the Soviet victory in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-h-h_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h-h-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Salchak_Toka" title="Salchak Toka">Salchak Toka</a>, leader of the <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_People%27s_Revolutionary_Party" title="Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party">Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party</a>, was given the title of First Secretary of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuvan_Communist_Party&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tuvan Communist Party (page does not exist)">Tuvan Communist Party</a> and became the <a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a> ruler of Tuva until his death in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The territory became the <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic">Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic</a> on 10 October 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-h-h_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h-h-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_in_Tuva_2007-54.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Vladimir_Putin_in_Tuva_2007-54.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Putin_in_Tuva_2007-54.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Vladimir_Putin_in_Tuva_2007-54.jpg/330px-Vladimir_Putin_in_Tuva_2007-54.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Vladimir_Putin_in_Tuva_2007-54.jpg/440px-Vladimir_Putin_in_Tuva_2007-54.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1643" data-file-height="874" /></a><figcaption>Russian President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> in Tuva in 2007</figcaption></figure> <p>In February 1990, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuvan_Democratic_Movement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tuvan Democratic Movement (page does not exist)">Tuvan Democratic Movement</a> was founded by <a href="/wiki/Kaadyr-ool_Bicheldei" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaadyr-ool Bicheldei">Kaadyr-ool Bicheldei</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philologist</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Kyzyl_State_Pedagogical_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyzyl State Pedagogical Institute">Kyzyl State Pedagogical Institute</a>. The party aimed to provide jobs and housing (both in short supply), and improve the status of the <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan language</a> and culture. Later in the year, there was a wave of attacks against Tuva's sizeable Russian community, including sniper attacks on trucks, and attacks on outlying settlements, with 168 murdered.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Russian troops were eventually called in. Many Russians moved out of the republic during this period. Tuva has remained remote and difficult to access.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tuva was a signatory to the 31 March 1992 treaty that created the Russian Federation. On 22 October 1993, a new constitution was drawn up for the republic, creating a 32-member parliament (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Supreme_Khural_of_Tuva&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Supreme Khural of Tuva (page does not exist)">Supreme Khural</a>) and a <a href="/wiki/Great_Khural_of_Tuva" title="Great Khural of Tuva">Grand Khural</a>, which deals with local legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The constitution was approved by 53.9% (62.2% according to another source) of Tuvans in a referendum on 12 December 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, the official name was changed from <i>Tuva</i> (Тува) to <i>Tyva</i> (Тыва).<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Tuva" title="Special:EditPage/Tuva">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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Its <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital city</a> is Kyzyl, located near the <a href="/wiki/Geographical_Center_of_Asian_Continent" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographical Center of Asian Continent">geographic "center of Asia"</a>. The eastern part of the republic is forested and elevated, while the western part is a drier <a href="/wiki/Upland_and_lowland" title="Upland and lowland">lowland</a>. </p> <ul><li><i>Borders:</i> <ul><li><i>internal:</i> <a href="/wiki/Khakassia" title="Khakassia">Khakassia</a> (NW/N), <a href="/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Krai" title="Krasnoyarsk Krai">Krasnoyarsk Krai</a> (N), <a href="/wiki/Irkutsk_Oblast" title="Irkutsk Oblast">Irkutsk Oblast</a> (N/NE), <a href="/wiki/Buryatia" title="Buryatia">Buryatia</a> (E), <a href="/wiki/Altai_Republic" title="Altai Republic">Altai Republic</a> (SW/W)</li> <li><i>international</i>: <a href="/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia">Mongolia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bayan-%C3%96lgii_Province" title="Bayan-Ölgii Province">Bayan-Ölgii Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kh%C3%B6vsg%C3%B6l_Province" title="Khövsgöl Province">Khövsgöl Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uvs_Province" title="Uvs Province">Uvs Province</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zavkhan_Province" title="Zavkhan Province">Zavkhan Province</a>) (S) (border line length: 1,305 kilometers (811 mi))</li></ul></li> <li>Highest point: <a href="/wiki/Mongun-Taiga" title="Mongun-Taiga">Mount Mongun-Tayga</a>, 3,970 meters (13,020 ft)</li> <li>Maximum N–S distance: 450 kilometers (280 mi)</li> <li>Maximum E–W distance: over 700 kilometers (430 mi)</li> <li>Area: 170,427 square kilometers (65,802 sq mi)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rivers">Rivers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Rivers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are over 8,000 rivers in the Tuvan Republic, including the upper course of the <a href="/wiki/Yenisei_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Yenisei River">Yenisei River</a>, the fifth longest river in the world. Most of the republic's rivers are Yenisei <a href="/wiki/Tributary" title="Tributary">tributaries</a>. There are also numerous <a href="/wiki/Mineral_spring" title="Mineral spring">mineral springs</a> in the area. </p><p>Major rivers include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yenisei_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Yenisei River">Yenisei River</a> (also called Ulug-Khem)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kantegir_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Kantegir River">Kantegir River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khemchik_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Khemchik River">Khemchik River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maly_Yenisei_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Maly Yenisei River">Maly Yenisei River</a> (also called Ka-Khem or Kaa-Khem)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolshoy_Yenisei_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolshoy Yenisei River">Upper Yenisei River</a> (also called Biy-Khem or Bii-Khem)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lakes">Lakes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lakes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81,_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8B.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8B.jpg/220px-%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8B.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8B.jpg/330px-%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8B.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8B.jpg/440px-%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8B.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Azas Lake</figcaption></figure> <p>There are numerous lakes in Tuva, many of which are glacial and <a href="/wiki/Salt_lake_(geography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt lake (geography)">salt lakes</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Todzha_Lake" title="Todzha Lake">Todzha Lake, a.k.a. Azas Lake</a> (100 km<sup>2</sup>) – the largest in the republic, and <a href="/wiki/Uvs_Lake" title="Uvs Lake">Uvs Lake</a> (shared with Mongolia and a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mountains">Mountains</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mountains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8,_%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85!.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/%D0%A1%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%21.jpg/220px-%D0%A1%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%21.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/%D0%A1%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%21.jpg/330px-%D0%A1%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/%D0%A1%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%21.jpg/440px-%D0%A1%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%85%21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Mountains of Tuva</figcaption></figure> <p>The Tuva Republic is made up of a mountain basin, about 600 m high, encircled by the <a href="/wiki/Sayan_Mountains" title="Sayan Mountains">Sayan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tannu-Ola_mountains" title="Tannu-Ola mountains">Tannu-Ola</a> mountain ranges. Mountains and hills cover over 80% of its territory. Mongun-Tayga ("Silver Mountain", 3,970 m) is the highest point in the republic and is named after its glacier. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Administrative divisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Tuva_Republic" title="Administrative divisions of the Tuva Republic">Administrative divisions of the Tuva Republic</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Population</b>: <span class="nowrap">336,651 (<a href="/wiki/2021_Russian_census" title="2021 Russian census">2021 Census</a>)</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-2021Census_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021Census-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="nowrap">307,930 (<a href="/wiki/2010_Russian_census" title="2010 Russian census">2010 Census</a>)</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-2010Census_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010Census-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="nowrap">305,510 (<a href="/wiki/2002_Russian_census" title="2002 Russian census">2002 Census</a>)</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-PopCensus_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopCensus-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="nowrap">309,129 (<a href="/wiki/1989_Soviet_census" title="1989 Soviet census">1989 Soviet census</a>)</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-Census1989_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census1989-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vital_statistics">Vital statistics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Vital statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gks.ru/dbscripts/Cbsd/DBInet.cgi#1">Russian Federal State Statistics Service</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080412011659/http://www.gks.ru/dbscripts/Cbsd/DBInet.cgi#1">Archived</a> 12 April 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Years </th> <th style="width:70pt;">Average population (x 1000) </th> <th style="width:70pt;">Live births </th> <th style="width:70pt;">Deaths </th> <th style="width:70pt;">Natural change </th> <th style="width:70pt;">Crude birth rate (per 1000) </th> <th style="width:70pt;">Crude death rate (per 1000) </th> <th style="width:70pt;">Natural change (per 1000) </th> <th width="70pt"">Fertility rates <p><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punctuation" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style"><span title="Quotation marks may be incomplete, unbalanced or improperly applied.">check quotation syntax</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1970 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">233 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,559 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,938 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,621 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">28.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1975 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">253 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,950 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,306 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,644 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">27.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1980 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">272 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,133 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,748 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,385 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1985 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">287 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,110 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,624 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,486 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">28.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">309 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,116 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,664 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,452 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.22 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">304 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,271 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,873 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,398 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">23.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.97 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">303 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,545 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,006 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,539 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">21.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.68 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">302 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,130 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,480 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,650 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.50 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">303 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,076 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,086 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,990 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.46 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">304 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,172 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,010 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,162 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">305 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,705 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,110 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,595 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.25 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">305 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,908 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,954 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">954 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:red;">1.91 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">306 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,267 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,631 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,636 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:red;">2.02 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">306 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,894 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,142 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">752 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:red;">1.86 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">306 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,871 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,170 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">701 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:red;">1.83 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">305 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,992 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,165 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">827 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:red;">1.85 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">305 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,727 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,576 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,151 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.10 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">305 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,276 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,633 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,643 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.28 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">304 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,127 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,090 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,037 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.19 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">303 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,979 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,326 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,653 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.11 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">302 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,950 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,802 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,148 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.06 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">302 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,568 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,687 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,881 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.60 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">303 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,874 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,526 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,348 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.68 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">305 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,242 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,666 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,576 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">27.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.97 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">307 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,262 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,566 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,696 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.03 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">308 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,478 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,403 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,075 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">27.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.25 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">310 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,266 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,471 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,795 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.35 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">311 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,111 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,399 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,728 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.42 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">313 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,921 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,419 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,502 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.48 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">315 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,489 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,258 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,231 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">23.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.39 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">317 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,421 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,112 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,309 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">23.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.35 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">320 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,977 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,788 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,189 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">21.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">3.19 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">323 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,539 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,857 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,682 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.97 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">326 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,158 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,718 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,440 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.72 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">330 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,582 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,024 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,601 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.97 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">332 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,629 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,028 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,558 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">20.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.94 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2022 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,997 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,867 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,130 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.51 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2023 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,738 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,986 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,752 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; color:blue;">2.44 </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><b>Average life expectancy</b>: Tuva: 56.5 (average male and female, UNDP data); Russia: (UN data) Male 59 (world rank 166); Female 73 (127)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnic_groups">Ethnic groups</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Ethnic groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/2021_Russian_census" title="2021 Russian census">2021 census</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-census2021_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2021-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tuvans make up 88.7% of the population. Other groups include <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a> (10.1%), and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#e0e0e0;"> <th rowspan="2">Ethnic<br />group </th> <th colspan="2">1959 census </th> <th colspan="2">1970 census </th> <th colspan="2">1979 census </th> <th colspan="2">1989 census </th> <th colspan="2">2002 census </th> <th colspan="2">2010 census </th> <th colspan="2">2021 census<sup>1</sup> </th></tr> <tr style="background:#e0e0e0;"> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Tuvans" title="Tuvans">Tuvans</a> </td> <td>97,996 </td> <td>57.0% </td> <td>135,306 </td> <td>58.6% </td> <td>161,888 </td> <td>60.5% </td> <td>198,448 </td> <td>64.3% </td> <td>235,313 </td> <td>77.0% </td> <td>249,299 </td> <td>82.0% </td> <td>279,789 </td> <td>88.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a> </td> <td>68,924 </td> <td>40.1% </td> <td>88,385 </td> <td>38.3% </td> <td>96,793 </td> <td>36.2% </td> <td>98,831 </td> <td>32.0% </td> <td>61,442 </td> <td>20.1% </td> <td>49,434 </td> <td>16.3% </td> <td>31,927 </td> <td>10.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Khakas_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Khakas people">Khakas</a> </td> <td>1,726 </td> <td>1.0% </td> <td>2,120 </td> <td>0.9% </td> <td>2,193 </td> <td>0.8% </td> <td>2,258 </td> <td>0.7% </td> <td>1,219 </td> <td>0.4% </td> <td>877 </td> <td>0.3% </td> <td>359 </td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">Others </td> <td>3,282 </td> <td>1.9% </td> <td>5,053 </td> <td>2.2% </td> <td>6,725 </td> <td>2.5% </td> <td>9,020 </td> <td>2.9% </td> <td>7,526 </td> <td>2.5% </td> <td>4,427 </td> <td>1.4% </td> <td>3,483 </td> <td>1.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="15" style="text-align:left;"><sup>1</sup><small>21,093 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.</small><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1261442011">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 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style="text-align:right;padding:1px">230,864</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+34.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1979</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">266,453</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+15.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1989</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">309,129</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+16.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2002</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">305,510</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−1.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2010</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">307,930</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2021</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">336,651</td><td 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exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a></div></figcaption></figure><p>During the period from 1959 to 2010, there was more than a doubling of ethnic Tuvans. The Russian population growth slowed by the 1980s and decreased by 70% since 1989. The official languages are <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Siberian_Turkic_languages" title="Siberian Turkic languages">Turkic</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> (<a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic</a>). </p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg/220px-%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg/330px-%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg/440px-%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4592" data-file-height="3056" /></a><figcaption>Tuvans in 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>Outside Kyzyl, settlements have few if any Russian inhabitants and, in general, Tuvans use their original language as their first language. However, there is a small population of <a href="/wiki/Old_believers" class="mw-redirect" title="Old believers">Old Believers</a> in the Republic scattered in some of the most isolated areas. Before Soviet rule, there were a number of large ethnic Russian Old Believer villages, but as atheism spread, the believers moved deeper and deeper into the <a href="/wiki/Taiga" title="Taiga">taiga</a> in order to avoid contact with outsiders. Major Old Believer villages are Erzhei, Uzhep, Unzhei, Zhivei and Bolee Malkiye (all in the <a href="/wiki/Kaa-Khemsky_District" title="Kaa-Khemsky District">Kaa-Khemsky District</a>). Smaller ultra-Orthodox settlements are found further upstream.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ethnic Russians make up 27.4% of the population (as of the 2021 census) in Kaa-Khemsky District, one of the most remote regions in Tuva. The population is mostly <a href="/wiki/Old_believers" class="mw-redirect" title="Old believers">Old Believers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Russians account for 18.9% of the population in <a href="/wiki/Piy-Khemsky_District" title="Piy-Khemsky District">Piy-Khemsky</a> and 16.4% in Kyzyl.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%22%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%22%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%22.jpg/220px-%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%22%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%22.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%22%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%22.jpg/330px-%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%22%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%22%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%22.jpg/440px-%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%22%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1243" data-file-height="828" /></a><figcaption>Buddhist temple of Kyzyl (Цеченлиң/Tsechenling)</figcaption></figure> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:none"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Religion in Tuva as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)<sup id="cite_ref-2012ArenaAtlas_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012ArenaAtlas-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2012Arena-religion-maps_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012Arena-religion-maps-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Russia" title="Buddhism in Russia">Buddhism</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Yellow; width:61.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">61.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">Atheism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">irreligion</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Black; width:11.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">11.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Tengrism" title="Tengrism">Tengrism</a> and Tuvan <a href="/wiki/Shamanism" title="Shamanism">Shamanism</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Red; width:8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_but_not_religious" title="Spiritual but not religious">Spiritual but not religious</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:DarkSlateGray; width:7.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">7.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other and undeclared</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Gray; width:7.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">7.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Russia" title="Christianity in Russia">Christians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:DeepSkyBlue; width:1.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Protestantism_in_Russia" title="Protestantism in Russia">Protestantism</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Navy; width:1.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodoxy</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:DarkOrchid; width:0.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.8%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <p>Two religions are widespread among the Tuvan people: <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shamanism" title="Shamanism">shamanism</a>. Tibetan Buddhism's present-day spiritual leader is <a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso</a>, the fourteenth <a href="/wiki/Dalai_Lama" title="Dalai Lama">Dalai Lama</a>. In September 1992, Tenzin Gyatso visited Tuva for three days.<sup id="cite_ref-Avant_Art_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avant_Art-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 20, he blessed and consecrated the yellow-blue-white flag of Tuva, which had been officially adopted three days before.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Tuvan people – along with the <a href="/wiki/Yellow_Uyghurs" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow Uyghurs">Yellow Uyghurs</a> in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> – are one of the only two Turkic groups who are primarily adherents to Tibetan Buddhism, which coexists with native shamanistic traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-Kommersant_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kommersant-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tuvans were first exposed to Buddhism during the 13th and 14th centuries, when Tuva entered into the composition of the Mongol Empire. The earliest Buddhist temples uncovered by archaeologists in the territory of Tuva date to the 13th and 14th centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 16th and 17th centuries, Tibetan Buddhism gained popularity in Tuva. An increasing number of new and restored temples are coming into use, and there has been an upward trend in the number of novices being trained as monks and lamas in recent years. Religious practice declined under the restrictive policies of the Soviet period, but is now flourishing.<sup id="cite_ref-World_Heritage_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Heritage-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_2017_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_2017_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/170px-%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_2017_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_2017_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/255px-%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_2017_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_2017_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="405" /></a><figcaption>Resurrection Cathedral in Kyzyl</figcaption></figure> <p>According to a 2012 survey,<sup id="cite_ref-2012ArenaAtlas_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012ArenaAtlas-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 61.8% of the population of Tuva adheres to <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, 8% to <a href="/wiki/Tengrism" title="Tengrism">Tengrism</a> or Tuvan shamanism, 1.5% to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>, the Old Believers or other forms of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, 1% to <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestantism</a>. In addition, 7.7% follow other religions or did not give an answer to the survey. 8% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious" and 12% to be <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2012ArenaAtlas_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012ArenaAtlas-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Tuva" title="Special:EditPage/Tuva">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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The Republic's Constitution was adopted on 23 October 1993. </p><p>The head of Tuva is the chairman of the government and serves a five-year term which can be renewed. The first Chairman of the Government was <a href="/wiki/Sherig-ool_Oorzhak" title="Sherig-ool Oorzhak">Sherig-ool Oorzhak</a>. On 3 April 2007, Russian president <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> nominated <a href="/wiki/Sholban_Kara-ool" title="Sholban Kara-ool">Sholban Kara-ool</a>, 40, a former champion wrestler, as the Chairman of the Government of Tuva.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kara-ool's candidacy was approved by the Khural on 9 April 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kara-ool served from 2007 until 2021. The third and current Tuvan head of government is <a href="/wiki/Vladislav_Khovalyg" title="Vladislav Khovalyg">Vladislav Khovalyg</a>. </p><p>Tuva's legislature, the <a href="/wiki/Great_Khural_of_Tuva" title="Great Khural of Tuva">Great Khural</a>, has 32 seats as of 2023; each deputy is elected to serve a five-year term. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2024_Russian_presidential_election" title="2024 Russian presidential election">2024 Russian presidential election</a>, which critics called rigged and fraudulent, President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> won 95.37% of the vote in Tuva.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Tuva, there are a total of approximately 7,400 unemployed, which gives a 5.9% unemployment rate <sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is above the overall Russian unemployment rate of 4.9% <sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mining">Mining</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Mining"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mining is a crucial element of the Tuvan economy. The <a href="/wiki/Ulugh-Khem_coal_basin" title="Ulugh-Khem coal basin">Ulugh-Khem coal basin</a> is located in Tuva.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is estimated that in 2020, there were 40 million metric tonnes of coal produced in Tuva,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which accounts for approximately 9.4% of Russia's average annual coal production of 423 million metric tonnes.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tuva does not have a railway, although <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Tannu_Tuva" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva">famous postage stamps</a> in the 1930s, designed in Moscow during the time of Tuvan independence, mistakenly depict locomotives as demonstrating Soviet-inspired progress there.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Kuragino%E2%80%93Kyzyl_railway_line" title="Kuragino–Kyzyl railway line">Kuragino–Kyzyl railway line</a> is scheduled to be completed in 2026.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tuva is served by <a href="/wiki/Kyzyl_Airport" title="Kyzyl Airport">Kyzyl Airport</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Tuva" class="mw-redirect" title="Music of Tuva">Music of Tuva</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Yurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg/220px-Yurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Yurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg/330px-Yurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Yurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg/440px-Yurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="519" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Yurt" title="Yurt">yurt</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tos_Bulak" class="mw-redirect" title="Tos Bulak">Tos Bulak</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5.jpg/220px-%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5.jpg/330px-%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5.jpg/440px-%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing" title="Tuvan throat singing">Tuvan throat singer</a> <a href="/wiki/Kongar-ool_Ondar" title="Kongar-ool Ondar">Kongar-ool Ondar</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Traditionally, the Tuvan people are a Central Asian <a href="/wiki/Yurt" title="Yurt">yurt</a>-dwelling <a href="/wiki/Nomad" title="Nomad">nomadic</a> culture, with distinctive traditions in music, cuisine, and folk art. Tuvan music features <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing" title="Tuvan throat singing">Tuvan throat singing</a> (khoomei), in which the singer sings a <a href="/wiki/Fundamental_tone" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundamental tone">fundamental tone</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Overtone" title="Overtone">overtone</a> simultaneously. This type of singing can be heard during performances by the <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_National_Orchestra" title="Tuvan National Orchestra">Tuvan National Orchestra</a>, at events such as the 'International Khoomei Day' held at the National Tuvinian Theatre in Kyzyl.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Tuvan craft tradition includes carving the soft stone, <a href="/wiki/Agalmatolite" class="mw-redirect" title="Agalmatolite">agalmatolite</a>. A frequent motif is hand-held-sized animals, such as horses.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Important archaeological excavations in Tuva include Arzhaan-1 and Tunnug 1,<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> dating to the ninth century BC.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Arzhaan-2, where <a href="/wiki/Scythian_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Scythian art">Scythian animal art</a> in great variety, and over 9,000 decorative gold pieces were unearthed.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A collection of gold jewelry from this site is on display at the National Museum Aldan-Maadyr in Kyzyl.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Festivals celebrating Tuvan traditions include the ecological film festival "The Living Path of Dersu", the Interregional Festival of National Cultures "Heart of Asia". It has become a tradition to hold the international festival of live music "Ustuu-Khuree", the International Symposium "Khoomei – the Phenomenon of the Culture of the Peoples of Central Asia", the Regional Competition-Festival of Performers on National Instruments "Dingildai", the International Felt Festival "Patterns of Life on Felt" Pop songs "Melodies of the Sayan Mountains".<sup id="cite_ref-gov.tuva.ru_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gov.tuva.ru-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion_2">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tuva is one of the few places in the world where the original form of shamanism is preserved as part of the traditional culture of Tuva. Shamanism presupposes the existence of good and evil spirits inhabiting mountains, forests and water, as well as the heavens and the underworld. The mediator between man and the spirits is the shaman. It is believed that with the help of spirits the shaman is able to cure patients and predict the future.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_62-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Tuva, shamanism peacefully coexists with Buddhism. Buddhism is associated with many folk rituals, calendar holidays, and folk medicines in Tuva. Centers of Buddhism in Tuva are Khuree – temples, temple complexes; the temple complex Tsechenling in Kyzyl is the residence of <a href="/wiki/Khambo_Lama" title="Khambo Lama">Khambo Lama</a>, head of Buddhism in Tuva. Treasures of the old Slavonic culture in the Asian Tuva saved along with the values of other peoples – children's folklore ensemble "Oktay" from the city of Kyzyl in the course several ethnographic expeditions in the old believers ' settlements were able to collect an extensive collection of samples of ancient singing art.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_62-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Music_in_the_Tuva_Republic" title="Music in the Tuva Republic">Music in the Tuva Republic</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bandy" title="Bandy">Bandy</a>, a sport similar to <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a>, is played in Tuva.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Khuresh" title="Khuresh">Mongolian-style wrestling</a> is very popular, as are most martial arts.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (February 2024)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Horse riding related sports are also predominant in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Miscellaneous"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Tannu_Tuva_1927_2k.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Stamp_Tannu_Tuva_1927_2k.jpg/170px-Stamp_Tannu_Tuva_1927_2k.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Stamp_Tannu_Tuva_1927_2k.jpg/255px-Stamp_Tannu_Tuva_1927_2k.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Stamp_Tannu_Tuva_1927_2k.jpg/340px-Stamp_Tannu_Tuva_1927_2k.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="655" /></a><figcaption>Tuvan Stamp from 1927</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In the 1920s and 1930s, <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Tannu_Tuva" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva">postage stamps from Tuva</a> were issued. Many <a href="/wiki/Philately" title="Philately">philatelists</a> have been fascinated with Tuva because of these stamps. The stamps were issued mainly during the brief period of Tuvan independence and were not accepted by serious collectors until recently as they were thought to be produced in Moscow and not to represent a genuine postal service.<sup id="cite_ref-negus_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-negus-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>According to Ilya Zakharov of <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>'s Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, genetic evidence suggests that the modern Tuvan people are the closest genetic relatives to the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">native peoples</a> of North and South America.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Physicist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Feynman" title="Richard Feynman">Richard Feynman</a> details in his autobiographical works that he became fascinated with Tuva as a child and was able to make limited contact with the country despite the constraints of the Soviet period. His unsuccessful attempts to visit were detailed in <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Leighton" title="Ralph Leighton">Ralph Leighton</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/Tuva_or_Bust!" title="Tuva or Bust!">Tuva or Bust!</a></i></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Sayan_Mountains" title="Sayan Mountains">Sayan Mountains</a> in Tuva were featured in <a href="/wiki/Bear_Grylls" title="Bear Grylls">Bear Grylls</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Man_vs_Wild" class="mw-redirect" title="Man vs Wild">Man vs Wild</a></i> adventure TV show.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Tuvans" title="List of Tuvans">List of Tuvans</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sainkho_Namtchylak" title="Sainkho Namtchylak">Sainkho Namtchylak</a> (born 1957), throat and experimental singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kongar-ool_Ondar" title="Kongar-ool Ondar">Kongar-ool Ondar</a> (1962–2013), throat singer and a member of the Great Khural of Tuva.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stepan_Saryg-Ool" title="Stepan Saryg-Ool">Stepan Saryg-Ool</a> (1908–1983), Soviet Tuvan poet, writer, folklore specialist, and politician.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Shoygu" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergei Shoygu">Sergei Shoygu</a> (born 1955), former <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Russia)" title="Minister of Defence (Russia)">Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation</a> and current <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Security_Council_of_Russia" title="Secretary of the Security Council of Russia">Secretary of the Security Council of Russia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C5%8Dga_Tokiyoshi" title="Rōga Tokiyoshi">Rōga Tokiyoshi</a> (born 1999, name Amartuvshin Amarsanaa), a professional <a href="/wiki/Sumo" title="Sumo">sumo</a> wrestler, wrestling for the <a href="/wiki/Futagoyama_stable" class="mw-redirect" title="Futagoyama stable">Futagoyama stable</a>. He is the only wrestler from Russia currently competing in professional sumo.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Altai-Sayan_region" title="Altai-Sayan region">Altai-Sayan region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_historical_unrecognized_states_and_dependencies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies">List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuva_horse" title="Tuva horse">Tuva horse</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Russian: <span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Республика Тыва</span></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">romanized</a>:</small> <span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Respublika Tyva</i></span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə<span class="wrap"> </span>tɨˈva]</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_language" title="Tuvan language">Tuvan</a>: <span lang="tyv">Тыва Республика</span>, <small>romanized: </small><span title="Tuvan-language romanization"><i lang="tyv-Latn">Tıva Respublika</i></span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="tyv-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[tʰɤ̀ʋɐ<span class="wrap"> </span>rʲɪ̀spúblʲɪkə]</a></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuva&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 40em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FederalDistrict-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FederalDistrict_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г.</span></span> (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 <i>On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District</i>. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EconomicRegion-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-EconomicRegion_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. 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Get offa my taiga!": Comparing the sense of property rights among the Tofa and Tozhu-Tyva. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology working papers, nº 38. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft</a>, 2002; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1615-4568">1615-4568</a>.</li> <li><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">6 мая 2001 г. «Конституция Республики Тыва», в ред. 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div id="Federal_subjects3111"><b><a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia" title="Federal subjects of Russia">Federal subjects</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Oblasts_of_Russia" title="Oblasts of Russia">Oblasts</a> (48)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amur_Oblast" title="Amur Oblast">Amur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsk_Oblast" title="Arkhangelsk Oblast">Arkhangelsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrakhan_Oblast" title="Astrakhan Oblast">Astrakhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgorod_Oblast" title="Belgorod Oblast">Belgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryansk_Oblast" title="Bryansk Oblast">Bryansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelyabinsk_Oblast" title="Chelyabinsk Oblast">Chelyabinsk</a></li> <li><a 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title="Magadan Oblast">Magadan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Oblast" title="Moscow Oblast">Moscow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murmansk_Oblast" title="Murmansk Oblast">Murmansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod_Oblast" title="Nizhny Novgorod Oblast">Nizhny Novgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Oblast" title="Novgorod Oblast">Novgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novosibirsk_Oblast" title="Novosibirsk Oblast">Novosibirsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omsk_Oblast" title="Omsk Oblast">Omsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orenburg_Oblast" title="Orenburg Oblast">Orenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oryol_Oblast" title="Oryol Oblast">Oryol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penza_Oblast" title="Penza Oblast">Penza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pskov_Oblast" title="Pskov Oblast">Pskov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rostov_Oblast" title="Rostov Oblast">Rostov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Oblast" title="Ryazan Oblast">Ryazan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakhalin_Oblast" title="Sakhalin Oblast">Sakhalin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samara_Oblast" title="Samara Oblast">Samara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saratov_Oblast" title="Saratov Oblast">Saratov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smolensk_Oblast" title="Smolensk Oblast">Smolensk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast" title="Sverdlovsk Oblast">Sverdlovsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tambov_Oblast" title="Tambov Oblast">Tambov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomsk_Oblast" title="Tomsk Oblast">Tomsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tula_Oblast" title="Tula Oblast">Tula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tver_Oblast" title="Tver Oblast">Tver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyumen_Oblast" title="Tyumen Oblast">Tyumen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulyanovsk_Oblast" title="Ulyanovsk Oblast">Ulyanovsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Oblast" title="Vladimir Oblast">Vladimir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast" title="Volgograd Oblast">Volgograd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vologda_Oblast" title="Vologda Oblast">Vologda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Oblast" title="Voronezh Oblast">Voronezh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaroslavl_Oblast" title="Yaroslavl Oblast">Yaroslavl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_occupation_of_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Zaporozhye</a><sup>1</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Republics_of_Russia" title="Republics of Russia">Republics</a> (24)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adygea" title="Adygea">Adygea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Altai_Republic" title="Altai Republic">Altai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashkortostan" title="Bashkortostan">Bashkortostan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buryatia" title="Buryatia">Buryatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chechnya" title="Chechnya">Chechnya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuvashia" title="Chuvashia">Chuvashia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea_(Russia)" title="Republic of Crimea (Russia)">Crimea</a><sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk</a><sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingushetia" title="Ingushetia">Ingushetia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabardino-Balkaria" title="Kabardino-Balkaria">Kabardino-Balkaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalmykia" title="Kalmykia">Kalmykia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karachay-Cherkessia" title="Karachay-Cherkessia">Karachay-Cherkessia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic" title="Luhansk People's Republic">Luhansk</a><sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Karelia" title="Republic of Karelia">Karelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khakassia" title="Khakassia">Khakassia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komi_Republic" title="Komi Republic">Komi</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Krasnodar_Krai" title="Krasnodar Krai">Krasnodar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Krai" title="Krasnoyarsk Krai">Krasnoyarsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perm_Krai" title="Perm Krai">Perm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Primorsky_Krai" title="Primorsky Krai">Primorsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stavropol_Krai" title="Stavropol Krai">Stavropol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zabaykalsky_Krai" title="Zabaykalsky Krai">Zabaykalsky</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_okrugs_of_Russia" title="Autonomous okrugs of Russia">Autonomous okrugs</a> (4)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chukotka_Autonomous_Okrug" title="Chukotka Autonomous Okrug">Chukotka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khanty-Mansi_Autonomous_Okrug" title="Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug">Khanty-Mansi</a><sup>2</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug" title="Nenets Autonomous Okrug">Nenets</a><sup>3</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug" title="Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug">Yamalo-Nenets</a><sup>2</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_cities_of_Russia" title="Federal cities of Russia">Federal cities</a> (3)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a><sup>1</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia#Types" title="Federal subjects of Russia">Autonomous oblast</a> (1)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast" title="Jewish Autonomous Oblast">Jewish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><sup>1</sup>Considered by most of the international community to be part of <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><sup>2</sup>Administratively subordinated to <a href="/wiki/Tyumen_Oblast" title="Tyumen Oblast">Tyumen Oblast</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><sup>3</sup>Administratively subordinated to <a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsk_Oblast" title="Arkhangelsk Oblast">Arkhangelsk Oblast</a>.</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" 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