List of ethnic groups in China

Ethnolinguistic map of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan)

The following is a list of ethnic groups in China where "China" is taken to mean areas controlled by either of the two states using "China" in their formal names, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, "Taiwan").

The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group, where some 91.59% ^[1] of the population was classified as Han Chinese (~1.2 billion). Besides the majority Han Chinese, 55 other "nationalities" or ethnic groups are recognised in mainland China by the PRC government, numbering approximately 105 million people, mostly concentrated in the northwest, north, northeast, south, and southwest but with some in central interior areas.

The major minority ethnic groups are Zhuang (16.1 million), Manchu (10.6 million), Hui (9.8 million), Miao (8.9 million), Uyghur (8.3 million), Tujia (8 million), Yi (7.7 million), Mongol (5.8 million), Tibetan (5.4 million), Buyei (2.9 million), Dong (2.9 million), Yao (2.6 million), Korean (1.9 million), Bai (1.8 million), Hani (1.4 million), Kazakh (1.2 million), Li (1.2 million), and Dai (1.1 million).

Officially recognised ethnic groups in mainland China

In order of population,^[2] this is the list of the 56 ethnic groups in China that are officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China. Members of several ethnic groups reside in Hong Kong and Macau, but due to the long separation from China, many of these ethnic groups are generally unknown to the Special Administrative Regions (of People's Republic of China) of Hong Kong and of Macau.

^AGB 3304－91 "Names of nationalities of China in romanization with codes".^[3]
Bthe population only includes the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China
¹also includes Utsuls of Hainan, descended from Cham refugees
²a subset of which is also known as Hmong
³including Amdowa and Khampa
⁴this category includes several different Tai-speaking groups historically referred to as Bai-yi
⁵a collective name for all Taiwanese aborigine groups in Taiwan
⁶also included are the zh:摩梭; Mósuō
⁷known as Kachin in Myanmar
⁸The same group as Vietnamese or Kinh in Sino-Vietnamese and historically referred to as 越 Yuè, or Sino-Viet Việt. See Yue (peoples).
⁹the same group as Nanai on the Russian side of the border

Taiwanese aborigines

"Undistinguished" ethnic minority groups

Poster showing the 56 ethnic groups of China in Beijing

This is a list of ethnic groups in China that are not officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China.

• Äynu people
• Gejia (亻革家人, Gèjiā Rén)
• Bajia (八甲人, Bājiǎ Rén)
• Deng (僜人, Dèng Rén)
• Khmu (克木人, Kèmù Rén)
• Kucong (Yellow Lahu/Lahu Shi (苦聪人; Traditional: 苦聰人; Kǔcōng Rén)
• Mang (芒人, Máng Rén)
• Sherpas (夏尔巴人; Traditional: 夏爾巴人; Xiàěrbā Rén)
• Tuvans (图瓦人, Túwǎ Rén)
• Yi (羿人, Yìrén)
• Youtai (犹太; Traditional: 猶太; Yóutài) (Jewish people of China and Jewish people in general)
• Yamato Japanese (大和民族) and Ryukyuans (琉球民族) living as permanent residents in Taiwan

Ethnic groups in Hong Kong and Macau

See also: Demographics of Hong Kong, Demographics of Macau

Hong Kong and Macau are special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. The governments of Hong Kong and Macau do not use the official PRC ethnic classification system, nor does the PRC's official classification system take ethnic groups in Hong Kong and Macau into account. As a result, minority groups such as Filipinos, Indonesians, Europeans and South Asians in Hong Kong, as well as Portuguese and Macanese (people of mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry) in Macau, do not appear in the PRC's list of ethnicities in China.

See also

• Ethnic minorities in China
• Undistinguished ethnic groups in China
• Tai ethnic groups in China
• Ethnic groups in Taiwan
• Zhonghua Minzu
• Taiwanese aborigines
• Demographics of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan

References

External links

• Family album of Chinese 56 ethnic groups

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