Demographics of Siberia

Geographically, Siberia includes the Russian Urals, Siberian, and Far Eastern Federal Districts.

Siberia has population density of only three persons per square kilometer (comparable to Mongolia).

Excluding territories of north-central Kazakhstan, Siberia has a total population of ca.

At one time Uralic and Altaic were believed to form the Ural–Altaic group, though this theory has now been largely discarded.

[clarification needed] The Yeniseian family, which includes Ket, has recently been linked with the Na-Dene languages into a Dené–Yeniseian group; while not universally accepted a broad consensus in favor of the proposal has emerged.