Which of the 56 ethnic groups in China has the smallest population?

Among the 56 ethnic groups, the population is the smallest, with less than 3000 people.

China has been a multi-ethnic country since ancient times. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), 56 ethnic groups were officially confirmed by the central government's investigation and statistics, and the rest were unidentified ethnic groups.

The ethnic minorities in China are mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Guangxi, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Hunan, Hubei, Hainan and Taiwan Province provinces. China is the country with the largest ethnic composition in the world, with 25 ethnic groups.

Extended data:

According to the results of the national census in 2000, among the 55 ethnic minorities, there are 18 with a population of over one million, except Han nationality. They are: Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Uygur, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, Korean, Manchu, Dong, Yao, Bai, Tujia, Hani, Kazak and Dai. Among them, the Zhuang nationality has the largest population, exceeding 6,543,800+0,600.

There are/kloc-0.5 ethnic groups with a population of less than 1 million and more than 65438+ 1 million. They are Yi, Wa, She, Lahu, Shui, Dongxiang, Naxi, Jingpo, Kirgiz, Tu, Daur and Mulao. There are 15 ethnic minorities with a population of less than 65,438+million and more than 65,438+million. They are Brown, Salar, Maonan, Achang, Pumi, Tajik, Nu, Uzbek, Russian, Ewenki, De 'ang, Baoan, Yugur, Jing, Jino and so on.

There are seven ethnic groups whose population is less than 1 000, namely, Menba, Oroqen, Dulong, tatar people, Hezhe, Gaoshan, Barrow (calculated by the population in the field survey area) and Qing Chuan. In addition, the ethnic composition of more than 734,000 people has not been determined.

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