With a population of 2,312 (by 1990), the Lhoba people have their homes mainly in Luoyu area and neighboring counties of Chayu, Motuo and Milin in southeastern Tibet. It is the ethnicminority with the smallest population in China. Most Lhobas speak...
The Lahu ethnic minority has a population of 411,476 (by 1990), primarily distributed in Yunnan's Lancang Lahu Autonomous County and neighboring counties such as Menglian, Shuangjiang, and Simao. This region is also home to the Hans, Dais, Yis, Hani...
The Korean ethnic minority in China has a population of 1,920,597 (as of1990), mainly living in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province. Some are widely distributed over Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning provinces and the Inner Mongol...
The Kirgiz ethnic minority, with a total population of 141,549 (as of1990), is scattered throughout the southwest of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, mainly in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture. A small percentage of this ethnic minority lives...
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...
