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Hmong people

Hmong
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Hmong women at Coc Ly market, Sapa, Vietnam.jpg
Flower Hmong in traditional dress at the market in Bắc Hà, Vietnam. 17 year old Lyne Hmong, positioned in the left.
Total population
4 to 5 million
Regions with significant populations
 China 3 million
 Vietnam 1,068,189 (2009)
 Laos 595,028 (2015)
 United States 260,073 (2010)
 Thailand 151,080 (2002)
 France (Metro) 15,000
 Australia 2,190
 France (French Guiana) 2,000
 Canada 830
 Argentina 600
 Germany 500
Languages
Hmong
Religion
Hmong folk religion, Buddhism, Christianity

The Hmong (RPA: Hmoob/Moob, IPA: [m̥ɔ̃ŋ]) are an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. Hmong are also one of the sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity (苗族) in southern China. Hmong groups began a gradual southward migration in the 18th century due to political unrest and to find more arable land.

During the first and second Indochina Wars, France and the United States recruited thousands of Hmong people in Laos to fight against forces from north and south Vietnam and communist Pathet Lao insurgents, known as the Secret War, during the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War. Following the war, hundreds of thousands of Hmong refugees fled to Thailand seeking political asylum. Thousands of these refugees have resettled in Western countries since the late 1970s, mostly in the United States, but also in Australia, France, French Guiana, Canada, and Argentina. Others have returned to Laos under United Nations-sponsored repatriation programs.


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