Ethnic Kazakhs

(哈薩克族). An ethnic minority of 1,5 million Chinese citizens who speak the Kazakh language and live in Xinjiang, where there are a Kazakh “autonomous” prefecture and three Kazakh “autonomous” counties. Almost all ethnic Kazakhs are Muslim, and they are subject to increasing religious persecution together with the Uyghurs.

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