From ancient times onwards, the ancestors of the Chinese people of all nationalities worked, lived and multiplied in the land of China, and jointly contributed their wisdom to the Chinese civilization and the establishment of a unified multi-ethnic state.
According to the survey statistics, the formal identification of the People's Republic of a total of 56 ethnic groups.
According to the sixth national census of the main data: the largest proportion of the Han population, accounting for about 91.51% of the total population, the other 55 ethnic groups less than the total population, accounting for about 8.49% of the total population, so called ethnic minorities .
Among the 55 ethnic minorities in China, Zhuang is the most populous, with a population of more than 16 million (2000); the least is Lhoba, with a population of less than 3,000 (2000). China is the largest ethnic composition of Yunnan Province, there are 25 ethnic groups.
China's ethnic distribution is characterized by: large mixed, small settlements, living in staggered. Ethnic minority areas live in the Han people, Han ethnic minority areas.
Although China's ethnic minorities, but the distribution is very wide. The provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have ethnic minorities live, most of the county-level units have more than two nationalities living. China's ethnic minorities are mainly distributed in the provinces and autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Guangxi, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Hunan, Hubei, Hainan and Taiwan.
"China's national distribution map" marked: millions of people over the nation (July 1, 1982 statistics), there are 56 ethnic display legend.
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