Koryaks (or Koriak) are an indigenous people of
Kamchatka Krai in the
Russian Far East, who inhabit the coastlands 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, Russia. They are akin to the
Chukchis, whom they closely resemble in culture and physique. They are more distantly related to the Kamchadal (
Itelmens) on the Kamchatka Peninsula. There is no genetic or anthropological evidence that they migrated to and then colonized Americas.