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Republic of Buryatia
Бүгэдэ Найрамдаха Буряад Улас
Республика Бурятия

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OTL equivalent: The Agin-Buryat Okrug, Buryatia, the Olkhonsky District, and the Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug.
Republic of the Soviet Union
Flag Coat of Arms
Flag Coat of Arms
Location of Buryatia
Location of Buryatia
Capital Ulan-Ude
Other Cities Gusinoozyorsk, Severobaykalsk
Language
  Official
 
Buryat and Russian
  Others Chinese, Mongolian, Tuvan
Religion
  Main
 
Buddhism
  Others Eastern Orthodoxy, Tengrism
Demonym Buryatian
Established March 30, 1923
Admission November 20, 1997
Time Zone (UTC+7 to +8)
  Summer (UTC+8 to +9)
Abbreviations BU, SU-BU

Buryatia (Buryat: Буряад Орон, Buryad Oron; Russian: Бурятия, Buryatiya), officially known as the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of the Soviet Union located in North Asia. The republic is hydrographically dominated by Lake Baikal, which is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume. Buryatia is culturally and historically connected to neighboring Mongolia, and is one of the few republics to have a Buddhist-dominated population.