Chechnya

The Chechen Republic (Chechen: ??????? ??????????/Noxçiyn Respublika, Russian: ????????? ??????????), informal Chechnya (Chechen: ????????/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiyno, Russian: ?????), sometimes incorrectly refered to as Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. Bordering Stavropol Krai to the northwest, the republic of Dagestan to the northeast and east, Georgia to the south, and the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the west, it is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District.

Demographics

Most Chechens are Sunni Muslim, the country having converted to that religion between the 16th and the 18th century. At the end of the Soviet era, ethnic Russians were about 23 percent of the population (269,000 in 1989); however, war, policies of Chechen separatist governments and social conflict led most Russians to flee Chechnya during the 1990s. At the close of the 1990s, about 60,000 remained.

Related Topics:
Sunni - Muslim - 16th - 18th century

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The languages used in the Republic are Chechen and Russian. Chechen belongs to the Vaynakh or North-central Caucasian linguistic family, which also includes Ingush and Batsb. Some scholars place it in a wider Iberian-Caucasian super-family.

Related Topics:
Chechen - Russian - North-central Caucasian - Ingush - Batsb - Iberian-Caucasian super-family

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Chechnya has one of the youngest populations in the generally aging Russian Federation; in the early 1990s, it was among the few regions experiencing natural population growth.

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• Population: 1,103,686 (2002)
• Urban: 373,177 (33.8%)
• Rural: 730,509 (66.2%)
• Male: 532,724 (48.3%)
• Female: 570,962 (51.7%)
• Average age: 22.7 years
• Urban: 22.8 years
• Rural: 22.7 years
• Male: 21.6 years
• Female: 23.9 years
• Number of households: 195,304 (with 1,069,600 people)
• Urban: 65,741 (with 365,577 people)
• Rural: 129,563 (with 704,023 people)
• 2004 Population in Chechnya(according to a Danish human rights group): Just under 800,000.
• In Grozny (the capital of Chechen Republic): 80,000.
• Chechens predominate, with 98% of the population. (About 10,000 Russians remain.)

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