Afghanistan (B) (NB), Armenia (B), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Bhutan, Bulgaria (B) (NB), China (mainland) (B) (NB) (P), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska), Cyprus (E) (B), Georgia (B) (P), Greece (B) (NB) (P), India (B) (NB), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (NB), Israel (P), Italy (E) (B), Kazakhstan (B), Kyrgyzstan (B), Lebanon (P), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Moldova [Republic of] (E) (B), Mongolia (B) (NB), Montenegro, Myanmar (NB), Nepal (NB), North Korea (NB), Pakistan (NB), Portugal (B) (NB), Romania (E) (B), Russia (Central Asian), Russia (European) (B) (NB), Serbia, Slovenia (E) (B), South Korea (NB), Spain (B) (NB), Sudan (NB), Syrian Arab Republic (NB), Tajikistan (B), Turkey (B) (NB), Turkmenistan (B), Ukraine (B) (NB), Uzbekistan (B), Vietnam.
Vagrant to Austria, Bangladesh (NB), Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Czech Republic (E) (B), Egypt (NB), Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Malaysia, Netherlands Antilles, Oman, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia (Slovak Republic), Switzerland, Taiwan (China), Thailand, Tunisia, Yemen.
Unknown to Albania (B), Morocco.
Southern Palearctic, from Spain, Balearic Is and Balkans through Turkey, Caucasus, Iran and Afghanistan to southern Siberia, Mongolia, northern China and extreme northern India. Winters south to Sudan, Middle East, Pakistan, north-western India and Korea.
Population
Estimated population is 14,000 - 20,000 (2010) and decreasing.
Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) [XC423964]
by Fernand DEROUSSEN from Parque Nacional de Monfrag\u00fce (near Torrej\u00f3n el Rubio), C\u00e1ceres, Extremadura, Spain (call)
Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) [XC144935]
by id from Saint-May, Drome, Rhone-Alpes, France (call, on the ground)
Subspecies
Possible subspecies chincou/chinou of China and danieli of Mongolia not generally recognized.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet