With a population of 1,111,718 (asof1990), the Kazak ethnic minority is distributed mainly in the Xinjiang Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, and Mori and Barkol Kazak autonomous counties. In addition, they also live in Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Th...
Numbering 18,021 (as of1990) in all, the Jinos live in the Jinoluoke Township of Jinghong County in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The language of this ethnic minority belongs to the Tibeto-Burman Austronesian of the C...
With a population of about 119,209 people (as of1990), the Jingpo ethnicminority shares land with the De-ang, Lisu, Achang and Han people. The Jingpo people are concentrated in the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province in southe...
The Jing ethnic minority, with a small population of 18,915 (as of1999), lives in compact communities primarily in the three islands of Wanwei, Wutou and Shanxin in the Fangcheng Multi-ethnic Autonomous County, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,...
With a sizable population of 8.61 million (as of1990), the Hui ethnicminority is one of China's largest and most widely distributed ethnic minorities. People of Hui origin can be found in most of the counties and cities throughout the country, espec...
With a population of 4,245 (as of 1990), the Hezhe is one of the smallest ethnic minorities in China. These nomadic people mainly live in the Tongjiang, Fuyuan and Raohe counties by the rivers of Songhua, Heilongjiang and Wusuli in China's northeast...
Most of the 1,253,952 (by 1999) Hanis live in the valleys between the Ailao and Mengle mountains in southern Yunnan Province. They are under the jurisdiction of the Honghe Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Their language belongs to the Yi branch of the...
The 437,997 (as of 1999) Gelos live in dispersed clusters of communities in about 20 counties in western Guizhou Province, four counties of the Wenshan Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Yunnan Province and the Longlin Multi-ethnic Au...
The Gaoshan people, about 400,000 in total (as of1990), mainly live in mountain areas and the flat valleys running along the east coast of Taiwan Island, and on the Isle of Lanyu. About 2,009 live in such major cities as Shanghai, Beijing and Wuhan...
The Ewenki ethnicminority has a population of 26,315 (as of1990) that is sparsely distributed across seven banners (counties) in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and in Nahe County in Heilongjiang Province. The spoken language of the Ewenki peop...
