Kalmucks, a Mongolian people. They number about 200,000. They live in tents, moving from place to place with their herds. They occupy the territory stretching from China through western Siberia into southeastern Russia. Their religion is a form of Buddhism. The Laplanders, now Christianized, and intermarried with Scandinavians, and dependent on herds of reindeer, are thought to have been originally a kindred people.