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Main article: Unrecognized ethnic groups in China. The following ethnic groups living in China are not recognized by the Chinese government: Äynu people – classified as Uyghurs. Altai people – classified as Mongols [ 12 ] Fuyu Kyrgyz people – classified as Kyrgyz. Gejia people – classified as Miao.
Early documents of the People's Republic of China (PRC), such as the 1982 constitution, [15] followed the Soviet practice of identifying 'nationalities' in the sense of ethnic groups (the concept is not to be confused with state citizenship). [3] [5] The Chinese term mínzú , made during the Republican period, translates this Soviet concept ...
With more than 100 million people, [20] Javanese people are the largest ethnic group in both Indonesia and in Southeast Asia as a whole. Their native language is Javanese, it is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers and also the largest regional language in Southeast Asia. [21]
The Oroqen or Orochen people (Oroqen: ɔrɔtʃeen; simplified Chinese: 鄂伦春族; traditional Chinese: 鄂倫春族; pinyin: Èlúnchūnzú; Mongolian: Orčun) are an ethnic group in northern China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. [2]: 1.6 The Oroqen people are largely ...
The Nationality law of the Republic of China regulates nationality within the Republic of China (Taiwan). A person obtains nationality either by birth or by naturalization. A person with at least one parent who is a national of the Republic of China, or born in the ROC to stateless parents qualifies for nationality by birth. [22]
Russians in China are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized in the People's Republic of China. [2] Enhe Russian Ethnic Township is the only ethnic township in China designated for China's Russian minority. Russians have been living in China for centuries and are typically the descendants of Cossacks that settled in China during the ...
China is the second most-populous country in the world and Asia with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only surpassed by India. Historically, China has always been one of the nation-states with the most population. China has an enormous population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China's one-child policy that was ...
[4] [7] Since the late 1980s, the most fundamental change of the PRC's nationalities and minorities policies is the renaming from Zhongguo renmin (中国人民; 'the Chinese people') to Zhonghua minzu (中华民族; 'the Chinese nation'), signalling a shift away from a multinational communist people's statehood of China to one multi-ethnic ...