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) [XC817951]
by David Farrow from Kinnaur (near Kalpa), Shimla Division, Himachal Pradesh, India (uncertain)
Rufous-naped Tit (Periparus rufonuchalis) [XC734478]
by Ding Li Yong from Miron Camp, Dashmandy, \u0411\u0430\u043b\u04b7\u0443\u0432\u043e\u043d, \u0412\u0438\u043b\u043e\u044f\u0442\u0438 \u0425\u0430\u0442\u043b\u043e\u043d, Tajikistan (call, subsong)
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.