The Tungus-Manchurian peoples are formed in a vast area in the Altai
Mountains and interact with other linguistic groups of peoples:
Mongolian, Turkic and Tibeto-Chinese. The Tunguso-Manchzhur peoples,
along with Turkic and Mongolian peoples, are part of the Altai family.
The Tunguso-Manchzhur peoples, by their physical appearance, mostly
belong to the Baikal type of Mongoloid race. Manchurians (in Chinese
"Man-tszu") were settled mainly in Dongbei, the administrative and
economic region of the People's Republic of China, which included most
of the former Manchuria. Manchuria is the north-eastern part of China.
It originates from the name of Manchurian state that existed in the 1st
half of the 17th c. on this territory. Evenki is a nation in Siberia of
Russia and northern China. They are also known under Tungus (at Russians
and Yakuts), Orochons (in Transbaikalia and Amur region), Kile (at
Udegeans).