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The Chinese

Han Chinese
Han people
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Total population
c. 1.300 billion
 People's Republic of China 1.240 billion
 Republic of China (Taiwan) 22,575,365
 Thailand 9,392,792
 Malaysia 6,650,000
 United States 3,794,673
 Indonesia 2,832,510
 Singapore 2,547,300
 Myanmar 1,637,540
 Canada 1,487,580
 Philippines 1,350,000
 Peru 1,300,000
 Cambodia 1,180,000
 South Korea 898,113
 Australia 866,200
 Vietnam 823,070
 Japan 655,377
 United Kingdom 433,150
 South Africa 350,000
 Italy 333,986
 Russia 998,000
 France 600,000–700,000
 Germany 212,000
 Spain 171,508
 India 189,470
 Laos 185,765
 Brazil 151,649
 New Zealand 147,510
 Netherlands 144,928
 Panama 135,000
 Hungary 23,678
 Finland 21,200
 Costa Rica 19,170
 Ireland 11,218
 Jamaica 30,000
Languages
Chinese
Religion
Non-religious, Chinese folk religion (including Taoism, ancestral worship, Confucianism, and others), Mahayana Buddhism, Christianity and other faiths.
Related ethnic groups
Other Sino-Tibetan peoples, such as Hui and Bai
Some sources refer to Han Chinese directly as "Chinese" or group them with other Chinese peoples.
Han Chinese
Simplified Chinese 汉族
Traditional Chinese 漢族

The Han Chinese, Han people or simply Han (漢族; pinyin: Hànzú, literally "Han ethnicity" or "Han ethnic group"; or 漢人; pinyin: Hànrén, literally "Han people") are an ethnic group native to East Asia. They constitute approximately 92% of the population of China, 95% of Taiwan (Han Taiwanese), 76% of Singapore, 23% of Malaysia and about 18% of the global population. Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group with over 1.3 billion people.

The name Han was derived from the Han dynasty, which succeeded the short-lived Qin dynasty, and is historically considered to be the first golden age of China's Imperial era due to the power and influence it projected over much of Asia. As a result of the dynasty's prominence in inter-ethnic and pre-modern international matters, many Chinese began identifying themselves as the "people of Han" (Chinese: 漢人; pinyin: Hàn Rén), a name that has been carried down to this day. Similarly, the Chinese language also came to be named the "Han language" (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語) ever since. In the Oxford Dictionary, the Han are defined as "The dominant ethnic group in China". In the Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, the Han are called the dominant population in "China, as well as in Taiwan and Singapore." According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the Han are "the Chinese peoples especially as distinguished from non-Chinese (such as Mongolian) elements in the population."


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