The Kazakhs are a Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia, native to Kazakhstan. The Kazakhs had their own culture since the establishment of the Kazakh Khanate in 1456, and they are descended from the Turks, Khazars, Naimans, Kipchaks, Cumans, and Karluks. In the 1932-1933 famine in the Soviet Union, 66% of the Kazakh population died, and only 15,000,000 Kazakhs are left in the world. 11,244,547 live in Kazakhstan, 1,500,000 in China, 800,000 in Uzbekistan, 647,732 in Russia, 440,000 in Afghanistan, 101,526 in Mongolia, 33,200 in Kyrgyzstan, 24,636 in the United States, 10,000 in Turkey, 9,600 in Canada, 3,000-15,000 in Iran, 5,526 in Ukraine, 5,000 in the United Arab Emirates, 4,821 in the Czech Republic, 1,685 in Austria, 1,355 in Belarus, and 1,000 in Germany. Kazakhs are predominantly Sunni Muslims.