Most Mongoloid and least Mongoloid country in Europe or West Asia?

**michal3141** · 07-09-2021, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Roy

Kalmyks are more Mongoloid and still native people in the geographical Europe. They are also the only traditionally Buddhist people in Europe. In the past there were steppe nomads though mostly inhabiting what is now Western China, Mongolia etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmyks

Valid point Roy.
Forgot about them.

**Voskos** · 07-09-2021, 10:37 AM

Most: Turkey, Finland
Least: Portuguese, Basques, Cypriots.

**~~Komintasavalta~~** · 07-09-2021, 10:46 AM

If transcontinental countries are included, then Kazakhstan. Otherwise Finland. Or if autonomous regions are included, then Kalmykia, because in the 2010 census, its population was listed as about 57% Kalmyk and 2% Kazakh, but in the same census, the population of Nenetsia was listed as only 19% Nenets and 9% Komi. More than half of the population of Bashkortostan consists of Bashkirs and Tatars, but there are almost as many Tatars as Bashkirs.

Or if only the European part of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is considered, then the most Mongoloid autonomous region of Europe might also be YNAO, because its European part consists of a small area of tundra where the only permanent settlement shown by Google Maps has been abandoned, so it might have a Nenets majority, if there is are even any people who can be considered to primarily live in the area.

**Voskos** · 07-09-2021, 11:05 AM

Turns out the least are Basques and Sardinians, based on FST. My bad then.

**Roy** · 07-09-2021, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by michal3141

Valid point Roy.
Forgot about them.

They are easy to be forgotten as not as 'famous' nor numerous as Tatars, Bashkirs etc. I have only really learnt about who they are a couple of years ago. Before that I've only known that they exist somewhere in Russia.

**Leto** · 07-09-2021, 05:48 PM

The Kalmyks didn't exist in what is today Kalmykia before the 17th century. About as native as the Boers and the English to South Africa and New England, respectively.
The Eurasian Steppe doesn't really have truly native inhabitants, it has always been a very dynamic and volatile region.