Shanghainese people
     
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| approximately 20,000,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 China
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14,000,000 people |
 Hong Kong
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As part of Mainlander population |
 Republic of China (on Taiwan) |
As part of Mainlander population |
 United States
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As part of Chinese American population |
 Australia
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As part of Chinese Australian population |
| Languages | |
| Shanghainese language, other Wu Chinese dialects, Mandarin Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Mahayana Buddhism and Chinese folk religions (including Taoism, Confucianism, ancestral worship and others), with many non religious. Minority: Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Wuyue people, Ningbo people, other Han Chinese | |
The Shanghainese (Chinese: , Shanghainese: Zaanhening, [zɑ̃.hé.ɲɪɲ]; p Shànghǎirén) are the native peoples of the City of Shanghai.
The Old City of Shanghai was a minor settlement until the later Qing Dynasty and many districts of the present municipality of Shanghai originally had separate identities, including separate dialects of Taihu Wu. In recent decades, millions of Chinese have moved to the city, both as internal immigrants and as migrant workers. The 2010 Chinese census found 9 million of Shanghai's 23 million residents (almost 40%) were migrants without a Shanghai hukou, triple the number from the year 2000 census. These "New Shanghainese" () are generally distinguished from the Shanghainese proper.
The term "Shanghainese" may thus apply to several different groups of varying exclusivity. Legally, it refers to those holding a hukou for one of the local governments in the municipality of Shanghai. Culturally, it most often means those who consider Shanghai to be their home city, although this is sometimes restricted to those in the central districts or who speak the Shanghainese dialects of those districts (as opposed, for example, to the mutually unintelligible sub-dialects in Jinshan).
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