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...
There are about 4,873 (as of1990) Tatars in China, most of whom live in Yining, Tacheng and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Tatar ethnic minority has its own language, which belongs to Turkic Austronesian of the Altaic Phylum. Ho...
Standing at China's west gate in the eastern part of the Pamirs on the "roof of the world" is the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang. It is the place where the ancient Tajik ethnicminority has lived generation after generation. Most of th...
The Shui ethnic minority has a population of 345,993 (as of1990), spreading over the upper reaches of the Duliu River and to the south of the Miaoling mountains in Guizhou Province, with the majority living in the Sandu Shui Autonomous County, and s...
The She ethnic minority, with a population of about 630,378 (as of1990), mainly lives in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and some are scattered throughout Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian provinces. They have their own language which belongs to the Miao...
