Editing Han Chinese (section)

==Distribution==

=== China ===
{{Main|Chinese people|Demographics of China|Han Chinese subgroups}}

The vast majority of Han Chinese – over 1.2 billion – live in the [[China|People's Republic of China]] (PRC), where they constitute about 90% of its overall population.<ref name="ciastat2018">[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/ CIA Factbook] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213122152/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/|date=13 February 2021}}: "Han Chinese 91.6%" out of a reported population of 1,384,688,986 billion (July 2018 est.)</ref> Han Chinese in China have been a culturally, economically and politically dominant majority vis-à-vis the non-Han minorities throughout most of China's recorded history.<ref>{{cite book|title=''World On Fire'' |last=Chua|first=Amy|author-link=Amy Chua|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing|year=2003|isbn=978-0-385-72186-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/177 177]|url=https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/177}}</ref><ref name="Chua 2000 328"/> Han Chinese are almost the majority in every [[Administrative divisions of China|Chinese province, municipality and autonomous region]] except for the autonomous regions of [[Xinjiang]] (38% or 40% in 2010) and [[Tibet Autonomous Region]] (8% in 2014), where [[Uyghurs|Uighurs]] and [[Tibetan people|Tibetans]] are the majority, respectively.

==== Hong Kong and Macau ====
{{Main|Hongkongers|Macau people|Demographics of Hong Kong|Demographics of Macau}}

Han Chinese also constitute the majority in both of the [[Special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] of the PRC.<ref>{{Cite report |date=February 2016 |title=2016 Population By-census – Summary Results |url=http://www.bycensus2016.gov.hk/en/bc-mt.html |publisher=[[Census and Statistics Department (Hong Kong)|Census and Statistics Department]] |page=37 |access-date=14 March 2017 |archive-date=20 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120115053/http://www.bycensus2016.gov.hk/en/bc-mt.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |date=May 2017 |title=2016 Population By-Census Detailed Results |url=https://www.dsec.gov.mo/getAttachment/e20c6bab-ada4-4f83-9349-e72605674a42/E_ICEN_PUB_2016_Y.aspx |publisher=[[Statistics and Census Service]] |access-date=25 July 2019 |ref={{harvid|Population By-Census|2016}} |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816134504/https://www.dsec.gov.mo/getAttachment/e20c6bab-ada4-4f83-9349-e72605674a42/E_ICEN_PUB_2016_Y.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2022}} The Han Chinese in Hong Kong and Macau have been culturally, economically and politically dominant majority vis-à-vis the non-Han minorities.<ref name="Chua 2000 328">{{cite journal |last1=Chua |first1=Amy |title=The Paradox of Free Market Democracy: Rethinking Development Policy |journal=Harvard International Law Journal |date=15 April 2000 |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=287–380 |url=https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2887 |hdl=20.500.13051/2534 }}</ref><ref name="Chua 2003 https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/178 178">{{Cite book|title=World On Fire|last=Chua|first=Amy|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing|year=2003|isbn=978-0-385-72186-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/178 178]|url=https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/178}}</ref>

=== Taiwan ===
{{Main|Han Taiwanese|Taiwanese people|Demographics of Taiwan}}
[[File:艋舺龍山寺 臺北市 直轄市定古蹟寺廟 Venation 2.JPG|thumb|[[Lungshan Temple of Manka]] in Taipei]]

There are over 22 million people of Han Chinese ancestry in living in Taiwan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/taiwan-population/|title=Taiwan Population (2017) – World Population Review|website=worldpopulationreview.com|access-date=23 January 2017|archive-date=27 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027124717/https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/taiwan-population|url-status=live}}{{better source needed|date=October 2024}}</ref> At first, these migrants chose to settle in locations that bore a resemblance to the areas they had left behind in China, regardless of whether they arrived in the north or south of Taiwan.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} [[Hoklo people|Hoklo]] immigrants from [[Quanzhou]] settled in coastal regions and those from [[Zhangzhou]] tended to gather on inland plains, while the [[Hakka people|Hakka]] inhabited hilly areas.

Clashes and tensions between the two groups over land, water, ethno-racial,{{dubious|reason=Surely sources don't use this term.|date=October 2024}} and cultural differences led to the relocation of some communities and over time, varying degrees of intermarriage and assimilation took place. In Taiwan, Han Chinese (including both the earlier Han Taiwanese settlers and the recent Chinese that arrived in Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek in 1949) constitute over 95% of the population. They have also been a politically, culturally and economically dominant majority vis-à-vis the non-Han [[Taiwanese indigenous peoples|indigenous Taiwanese peoples]].<ref name="Chua 2003 https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/178 178" /><ref name="Chua 2000 328" />

=== Southeast Asia ===
{{Main|Overseas Chinese#Southeast Asia}}

Nearly 30 to 40 million people of Han Chinese descent live in Southeast Asia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Han |first=Enze |date=28 December 2017 |title=Bifurcated Homeland and Diaspora Politics in China and Taiwan towards the Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia |department=Politics and Public Administration |journal=[[Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies]] |location=Hong Kong |publisher=[[Routledge]] |publication-date=28 December 2017 |volume=45 |issue=1 |page=582 |doi=10.1080/1369183X.2017.1409172|doi-access=free}}</ref> According to a [[population genetic]] study, [[Chinese Singaporeans|Singapore]] is "the country with the biggest proportion of Han Chinese" in Southeast Asia.<ref name="Ychrom_HanSingaporeans">{{cite thesis |last=Yim |first=Onn Siong |date=2005 |title=Y chromosome diversity in Singaporean Han Chinese population subgroups |type=Master |publisher=National University of Singapore |url=http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/27767 |access-date=26 May 2016 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308150848/https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/27767 |url-status=live }}</ref> Singapore is the only nation in the world where Overseas Chinese constitute a majority of the population and remain the country's cultural, economic and politically dominant arbiters vis-à-vis their non-Han minority counterparts.<ref name="Chua 2003 https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/178 178" /><ref name="Vatikiotis February 12th 1998">{{cite book|last=Vatikiotis|first=Michael|title=Entrerepeeneurs|date=12 February 1998|publisher=Far Eastern Economic Review|location=Bangkok|url=http://www.chaihah.co.th/docs/Far%20Eastern%20Economic%20Review%20260698.pdf|access-date=26 July 2019|archive-date=16 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816064358/http://www.chaihah.co.th/docs/Far%20Eastern%20Economic%20Review%20260698.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Chua 2000 328" /> Up until the past few decades, overseas Han communities originated predominantly from areas in Eastern and Southeastern China (mainly from the provinces of [[Fujian]], [[Guangdong]] and [[Hainan]], and to a lesser extent, [[Guangxi]], [[Yunnan]] and [[Zhejiang]]).<ref name="Ychrom_HanSingaporeans" />

=== Others ===
{{Main|Overseas Chinese}}

There are 60 million Overseas Chinese people worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2021 |orig-date=December 2, 2021 |title=Chinese education companies scramble to teach Overseas Children to learn Chinese language |url=https://edtechchina.medium.com/chinese-education-companies-scramble-to-teach-overseas-children-to-learn-chinese-language-c2803cde94c9 |publisher=GETChina Insights |access-date=15 February 2024 |archive-date=15 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215004112/https://edtechchina.medium.com/chinese-education-companies-scramble-to-teach-overseas-children-to-learn-chinese-language-c2803cde94c9 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Zhuang |first=Guotu |year=2021 |title=The Overseas Chinese: A Long History |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379264_eng |publisher=UNESDOC |page=24 |access-date=15 February 2024 |archive-date=15 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215003650/https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379264_eng |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suryadinata |first1=Leo |title=Blurring the Distinction between huaqiao and huaren: China's Changing Policy towards the Chinese Overseas |journal=Southeast Asian Affairs |date=2017 |volume=2017 |issue=1 |pages=101–113 |doi=10.1355/aa17-1f |id={{Project MUSE|658015}} |jstor=26492596 }}</ref> Overseas Han Chinese have settled in numerous countries across the globe, particularly within the Western World where nearly 4 million people of Han Chinese descent live in the United States (about 1.5% of the population),<ref name="usasurveys2017">{{Cite web |title=American FactFinder - Results |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_17_1YR_B02018&prodType=table |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411173518/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_17_1YR_B02018&prodType=table |archive-date=11 April 2019 |access-date=16 September 2018 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> over 1 million in Australia (5.6%)<ref name="2016Aus" />{{failed verification|date=January 2022}} and about 1.5 million in Canada (5.1%),<ref name="2016Census">{{Cite web |date=25 October 2017 |title=Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables |url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/imm/Table.cfm?Lang=E&T=31&Geo=01&SO=4D |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027195802/http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/imm/Table.cfm?Lang=E&T=31&Geo=01&SO=4D |archive-date=27 October 2017 |access-date=20 February 2020 |website=statcan.gc.ca}}</ref><ref name="www12.statcan.gc.ca">{{Cite web |date=8 May 2013 |title=Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity in Canada |url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-010-x2011001-eng.cfm#a4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103015229/https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-010-x2011001-eng.cfm#a4 |archive-date=3 November 2021 |access-date=20 February 2020 |website=statcan.gc.ca}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2022}} nearly 231,000 in [[New Zealand]] (4.9%),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/2018-census-totals-by-topic-national-highlights |title=2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights &#124; Stats NZ |website=Stats.govt.nz |access-date=2020-02-20 |archive-date=23 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923102431/https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/2018-census-totals-by-topic-national-highlights |url-status=live}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2022}} and as many as 750,000 in Sub-Saharan Africa.<ref>[http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=690 China and Africa: Stronger Economic Ties Mean More Migration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129114909/http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=690 |date=29 January 2014}}, By Malia Politzer, ''Migration Information Source'', August 2008.</ref>