Editing Hakka people (section)

====Malaysia====
[[File:Muar Hakka Association.jpg|thumb|Muar Hakka Association in [[Johor]].]]
Hakka people form the second largest subgroup of the ethnic [[Malaysian Chinese|Chinese]] population of [[Malaysia]], particularly in the [[Peninsular Malaysia|peninsula]], with several prominent Hakka figures emerging during [[British Malaya|colonial British rule]]. There are 1,729,000 people of Hakka ancestry in Malaysia as of 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://joshuaproject.net/countries/MY|title=People Groups|author=Joshua Project|website=joshuaproject.net}}</ref> [[Chung Keng Quee]], "Captain China" of [[Perak]] and [[Penang]], was the founder of the mining town of [[Taiping, Perak|Taiping]], the leader of the [[Hai San Secret Society|Hai San]], a millionaire philanthropist and an innovator in the [[Tin mining|mining of tin]], having been respected by both Chinese and European communities in the early colonial settlement. Another notable Hakka was [[Yap Ah Loy]], who founded [[Kuala Lumpur]] and was a [[Kapitan Cina]] of the settlement from 1868 to 1885, bringing significant economic contributions and was also an influential figure among the ethnic Chinese.

In the district of [[Jelebu]], [[Negeri Sembilan]], Hakka people make up more than 90% of the Chinese subgroup, with the dialect itself acting as a [[lingua franca]] there. This has contributed greatly to the fact that the place is commonly known among Hakka Chinese as "Hakka Village". The greatest concentration of Hakkas in central peninsular Malaysia is in [[Ipoh]], [[Perak]] and in Kuala Lumpur and its satellite cities in [[Selangor]]. Concentrations of Hakka people in Ipoh and surrounding areas are particularly high. The Hakkas in the [[Kinta Valley]] came mainly from the [[Meizhou|Jiaying Prefecture]] or [[Meixian District|Meixian]], while those in Kuala Lumpur are mainly of [[Huizhou]] origin.<ref name="leo">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FaCXCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87|title=Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking|author= Jessieca Leo|page=87|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004300279|date=3 September 2015}}</ref>

A large number of Hakka people are also found in [[Sarawak]], particularly in the cities of Kuching and [[Miri, Malaysia|Miri]], where there is a notable population of Hakka people who speak the "Ho Poh"{{clarify|date=July 2017}} variant of Hakka.

In [[Sabah]], most of the ethnic Chinese are of Hakka descent. In the 1990s, the Hakkas formed around 57% of the total ethnic Chinese population in Sabah.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Hakkas of Sabah : a survey of their impact on the modernization of the Bornean Malaysian State|author=Chong, Tet Loi|publisher=Sabah Theological Seminary|date= 2002|pages=32–33}}</ref> Hakka is the lingua franca among the Chinese in Sabah to such an extent that Chinese of other subgroups who migrate to Sabah from other states in Malaysia and elsewhere usually learn the Hakka dialect, with varying degrees of fluency.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FaCXCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|title=Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking|author= Jessieca Leo|pages=75–76|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004300279|date=3 September 2015}}</ref>

In 1882 the [[North Borneo Chartered Company]] opted to bring in Hakka labourers from [[Longchuan County, Guangdong]]. The first batch of 96 Hakkas brought to Sabah landed in [[Kudat]] on 4 April 1883 under the leadership of Luo Daifeng (Hakka: Lo Tai Fung). In the following decades Hakka immigrants settled throughout the state, with their main population centres in [[Kota Kinabalu]] (then known as Jesselton) and its surroundings (in the districts of [[Tuaran]], [[Penampang]], [[Ranau, Malaysia|Ranau]], [[Papar, Malaysia|Papar]], [[Kota Belud]] and to a lesser extent in [[Kota Marudu]]), with a significant minority residing in [[Sandakan]] (mainly ex-[[Taiping Rebellion|Taiping revolutionists]]) and other large but smaller minority populations in other towns and districts, most notably in [[Tawau]], [[Tenom]], [[Kuala Penyu]], [[Pitas, Malaysia|Pitas]], [[Tambunan]], [[Lahad Datu]], [[Semporna]], [[Kunak]], [[Sipitang]], [[Beaufort, Malaysia|Beaufort]], [[Keningau]] and [[Kudat]]. The British felt the development of North Borneo was too slow and in 1920 they decided to encourage Hakka immigration into Sabah. In 1901, the total Chinese population in Sabah was 13,897; by 1911, it had risen 100% to 27801.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chong|first1=Tet Loi|title=The Hakkas of Sabah: A Survey on Their Impact on the Modernization of the Bornean Malaysian State|date=2002|publisher=Sabah Theological Seminary|location=Kota Kinabalu|isbn=978-983-40840-0-4|oclc=51876445|page=28}}</ref> Hakka immigration began to taper off during World War 2 and declined to a negligible level in the late 1940s.