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The Karelians sometimes also Karels East Karelians or Russian Karelians (Karelian: karjalaižet) are a Baltic-Finnic ethnic group living mostly in the Republic of Karelia and in other north-western parts of the Russian Federation. The historic homeland of the Karelians includes also parts of present-day Eastern Finland (North Karelia) and the formerly Finnish territory of Ladoga Karelia.

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population place
Belarus, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia
related
Baltic Finns
religion
Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheranism

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