Ethnic Vietnamese
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| ~86 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Vietnam
|
81,328,696 (2015) |
 United States
|
1,548,449 (2010) |
 Cambodia
|
600,000 |
 France
|
350,000 |
 Canada
|
220,425 (2011) |
 Australia
|
210,800 (2010) |
 Taiwan
|
200,000 (2014) |
 Germany
|
150,000 |
 South Korea
|
143,000 (2013) |
 Japan
|
135,657 (2014) |
 Laos
|
100,000 |
 Malaysia
|
70,000 |
 United Kingdom
|
28,000 (born in Vietnam, 2014 ONS estimate) "At least 55,000" (total community, 2007 estimate) |
 Czech Republic
|
60,931 (2010) |
 Poland
|
50,000 |
 Russia
|
36,225 |
 China
|
30,000 |
 Philippines
|
27,600 |
 Norway
|
21,721(2014) |
 Netherlands
|
20,603(2014) |
 Thailand
|
10,000 |
 Denmark
|
14,669(2014) |
 Switzerland
|
14,496 |
 Qatar
|
8,000 (2008) |
 Macau
|
7,199 (2011) |
 Belgium
|
7,151 (2001) |
 New Zealand
|
4,875 (2006) |
 Finland
|
4,645 |
 Ukraine
|
3,850 (2001) |
 Hungary
|
3,019 (2011) |
 Slovakia
|
3,000 |
 Italy
|
3,000 |
 Bulgaria
|
2,600 |
 Brazil
|
1,000 |
| Languages | |
| Vietnamese | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Vietnamese folk religion syncretized with Mahayana Buddhism. Minorities of Christians (mostly Roman Catholics) and other groups. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people (Vietnamese: người Việt (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋɨəj˨˩ viət˩]), or người Kinh (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋɨəj˨˩ kiɲ˧])), are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam and southern China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population at the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other ethnic groups in Vietnam. The earliest recorded name for the ancient Vietnamese people appears as Lạc.
Although geographically and linguistically labeled as Southeast Asians, long periods of Chinese domination and influence have placed the Vietnamese culturally closer to East Asians, or more specifically their immediate northern neighbours, the Southern Chinese and other tribes within South China. The word Việt is shortened from Bách Việt, a name used in ancient times. Nam means "south".
Written history knows the ancient Vietnamese people first simply as the Lạc or Lạc Việt, and the country of Vietnam as Văn Lang. Archaeological evidence of the Đông Sơn culture (also known as Lac Society) suggests that Bronze Age Vietnamese people were among the first to practice agriculture.
DNA research shows that Vietnamese people are the oldest population in Southeast Asia. The Vietnamese show a close genetic relationship with other East Asians with the exception of seven unique markers.The Genographic Project by the National Geographic Society shows that the Vietnamese (Kinh) are intermediate between East and Southeast Asians. During another recent(2015) study the test subjects specifically showed more genetic variants in common with the Chinese than with the Japanese. The anonymous subjects of the study belong to the Vietnamese (Kinh) ethnic group, which makes up more than 80 percent of Vietnam’s population.
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