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Karakalpaks
The Karakalpaks are a small ethnic group of Turkic people who mainly live in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya and in the (former) delta of Amu Darya on the southern shore of the Aral Sea. The Karakalpaks probably number about 550,000 worldwide, out of which about 500,000 live in the so-called Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, which in reality has little autonomy, being essentially no more than a province of Uzbekistan, albeit the largest one (Richardson and Richardson, 2005).
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