The Nu ethnic minority, numbering some 27,123 (by 1990), live mainly in Yunnan Province's Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lanping counties, which comprise the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture. Others are found in Weixi County in the Diqing Tibetan A...
With a population of about 278,009 (as of1990), the Naxi ethnic group mainly live in concentrated communities in the Naxi Autonomous County of Lijiang in the Yunnan Province, and the rest are scattered throughout the neighboring counties in Yunnan P...
The Mulam ethnic minority has a population of 159,328 (as of1999), of which the majority live in Luocheng County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Others are scattered in neighboring counties. The Mulam language is a member of the Zhuang-Dong...
With a total population of over 4.8 million (as of1990), the Mongolians live mainly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Some are distributed in Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Others are scattered in Sichua...
With a population of 7,475 (as of1990), the Moinbas are scattered in the southern part of Tibet Autonomous Region. Most of them live in Menyu area, and some are scattered in the Motuo area. It is one of the smallest ethnic minorities in China. Their...
The Miao ethnicminority has a population of more than 7.39 million (by 1990), mainly scattered in Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hubei and Guangdong provinces, forming one of the largest ethnic minorities in southwest China. The Miao lang...
With a population of over 71,968 (as of1990), the Maonans are concentrated in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Huanjiang River in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Maonan language belongs to the Dong-Shui branch of the Zhuang-Dong Aust...
The Manchu, with a population of 9.82 million (by 1990), are mainly distributed in Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, of which Liaoning has the most Manchus. A small number of the Manchus scatter in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Xinjian...
The Lisu ethnic minority numbers 574,856 people (by 1990), and most of them live in concentrated communities in Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lushui counties of the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan Province. The rest are sca...
The Li ethnic group, with a population of 1.11 million (as of1999), mainly resides in Hainan Province, China's second largest island next only to Taiwan. The Lis have no written script. Their spoken language belongs to the Zhuang-Dong Austronesian o...