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Ancestors of East Asians ( Ancient East Eurasians) split from other human populations possibly as early as 70,000 to 50,000 years ago. Possible routes into East Asia include a northern route model from Central Asia, beginning north of the Himalayas, and a southern route model, beginning south of the Himalayas and moving through Southeast Asia.
Chinese: approximately 1.7 million, mostly in France, Russia, the UK, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Japanese: mostly in the UK and a sizable community in Düsseldorf, Germany. Koreans: 100,000 estimated (excluding a possible 100,000 more in the Asian section of Russia), mainly in the UK, France and Germany. See also Koryo-saram.
Mongoloid ( / ˈmɒŋ.ɡə.lɔɪd / [1]) is an obsolete racial grouping of various peoples indigenous to large parts of Asia, the Americas, and some regions in Europe and Oceania. The term is derived from a now-disproven theory of biological race. [2] In the past, other terms such as " Mongolian race", "yellow", "Asiatic" and "Oriental" have ...
Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity, is a multinational state, and is home to over 190 ethnic groups nationwide. According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.
Chinese culture not only served as the foundation its own society and civilization, but for also that of its East Asian neighbors, Japan and Korea. [69] The knowledge and ingenuity of Chinese civilization and the classics of Chinese literature and culture were seen as the foundations for a civilized life in East Asia.
Autosomally, Russians are most similar to populations in Eastern Europe followed by other Eurasian groups. [5] Genetic research suggests higher amounts of Siberian admixture among Northern Russians than Central and Southern Russians. Eastern Siberian-like ancestry was found at an average frequency of ~12% among Northern Russians.
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.
In Asia, countries like India, China, and Japan experienced interracial unions through trade, colonization, and migration, contributing to diverse genetic and cultural landscapes. In Europe, Nazi Germany's anti-miscegenation laws sought to maintain "racial purity," specifically targeting Jewish-German unions.