Afghanistan (B) (NB), China (mainland) (B), Kazakhstan (B), Kyrgyzstan (B) (NB), Tajikistan (B), Turkmenistan (B), Uzbekistan (B).
Unknown to Iran [Islamic Republic of] (E).
Western shore of Aral Sea east to southern Kazakhstan, northern Kyrgyzstan (north to southern tip of L Balkhash) and western China (northern Xinjiang to Karamay and Lop Nur), and south to south-western Turkmenia (possibly also extreme north-eastern Iran) and north-eastern Afghanistan in western and Chinese Turkestan south to edge of Kunlun Shan in east.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
White-winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus) [XC120338]
by Albert Lastukhin from Kocsu, Kazakhstan (call, series of calls)
White-winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus) [XC734894]
by Peter Boesman from Manem, \u0428\u0443\u0433\u043d\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0440\u0430\u0439\u043e\u043d, \u0413\u043e\u0440\u043d\u043e-\u0411\u0430\u0434\u0430\u0445\u0448\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c, Tajikistan (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Forms a superspecies with Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), Syrian Woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus), Sind Woodpecker (Dendrocopos assimilis) and Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis). Has hybridized very occasionally with Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major). Birds of the Turkestan uplands, described as subspecies leptorhynchus, tend to be less white, but difference minor and not constant, and racial separation regarded as unwarranted. Named subspecies albipennis (south-eastern Turkmenia), jaxartensis (lower R Syr Darya) and korejevi (south-western Alatau Mts) likewise insufficiently differentiated.