Afghanistan (B) (NB), China (mainland), India, Kazakhstan (B), Nepal, Pakistan, Russia (Asian), Tajikistan (B), Turkmenistan.
Southern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, south-western China (western Xinjiang), north-western and eastern Afghanistan, western and northern Pakistan and eastern in Himalayas to west-central Nepal (Kali Gandaki gorge).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Rufous-naped Tit (Periparus rufonuchalis) [XC747752]
by Barry Edmonston from Ala Archa NP, Chuy Province, Kyrgyzstan (call)
Rufous-naped Tit (Periparus rufonuchalis) [XC22718]
by vir joshi from Akzu Canyon, Akzu-Dzhabagly Nature Reserve, Southern Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan (?)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Until recently present genus normally subsumed into a broad Parus, and many authors still prefer that treatment. Occasionally considered conspecific with Rufous-vented Tit (Periparus rubidiventris). Birds from Afghanistan east to northern Pakistan (Gilgit) have been proposed as warranting racial separation (as blanchardi), but differences from populations elsewhere appear inconstant.