The Zhuang is China's largest ethnic minority, with a population of 15.5 million (by 1990), approaching that of Australia. Most of the Zhuangs live in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which is nearly the size of New Zealand. Th...
The Yugur ethnicminority has a population of about 10,569 (by 1990), with 90% of them living in the South Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Huangnibao area of Jiuquan City in Gansu province. (In Chinese, "Yugur" means "wealth and stabilit...
With a population of 6,572,173 (as of1990), the Yi ethnicminority is mainly scattered in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in which Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province holds the single larges...
The Yao ethnic minority, with a population of 2.13 million (by 1990), is mainly scattered in the mountain areas in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Jiangxi provinces. The ethnicminority has its own language whi...
The Xibe ethnic minority, with a population of 172,847 (as of1990), is widely distributed over northern China from the Ili area in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west to the northeast provinces of Jilin, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang. The...
The Va people number around 351,947 (as of1999) and live mainly in compact communities in the Ximeng, Cangyuan, Menglian counties and surrounding areas in southwestern Yunnan Province. The Va people have a unique spoken language, which belongs to th...
The Uygur, with a total population of 7.22 million (by 1990), have lived at the foot of Tianshan Mountain for several centuries. They used to colonize in the north and northwest region of China, suffering from the wars between tribes, before migrati...
In the Wuling Ranges of western Hunan and Hubei provinces, at elevations from 400 to 1,500 meters, dwell 5.71 million (by 2000) people called the Tujias. They live mainly in the Xiangxi Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Exi Tujia-Miao Autonomous Pre...
The Tu ethnic minority lives in the northwestern part of China, with a population of 191,624 (by 1990). It is concentrated in the Minhe and Datong counties and the Huzhu Tu Autonomous County in the eastern Qinghai Province. Others live sparsely in t...
The Tibetan ethnic minority, with a population of 4,593,330 (by 1990), mostly lives in the Tibet Autonomous Region. There are also Tibetan communities in Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. With a long history, Tibetans have their own lang...
