Buryatia

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Submitted Name

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Type Political Subdivision
Usage Armenian, English, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog
Scripts Բուրյաթիա(Armenian)
Pronounced Pron. buwr-YAH-tee-ə(English)
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Other Forms FormsBuriatia
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Meaning & History

From Russian Бурятия (Buryatiya) from the name of the Buryat people. The ethnic name is from Buryat буряад (buryaad), which is of uncertain origin and meaning, possibly from Buryat буртэ (burte) meaning "wolf". This is the name of a federal subject of Russia.