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The Koryaks live in the northeast of Siberia, in the northern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula and on the adjoining mainland from the Taigonos Peninsula to the Bering Sea.
The population is 40,000 (1989) and the administrative centre is the town of Palana (3,500 inhabitants in 1975).
The Koryak territory is mostly forest tundra and tundra in the subarctic climate belt.
KORYAKS, a Mongoloid people of north-eastern Siberia, inhabiting the coast-lands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southernmost limit of their range being Tigilsk.
The Koryaks of the interior, on the other hand, still own enormous reindeer herds, to which they are so attached that they refuse to part with an animal to a stranger at any price.
The women and children are treated well, and Koryak courtesy and hospitality are proverbial.
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