The Salar ethnic minority, with a population of 87,697 (as of1990), mainly lives in the Xunhua Salar Autonomous County in eastern Qinghai Province. There is also a sparse distribution in Gansu, Xinjiang and some other counties in Qinghai Province. T...
The ethnic Russians in China live in Ili, Tacheng, Altay, Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with a small population of 13,504 (by 1990). The Russians use their own language (Russian) and writ...
The Qiang ethnicminority mostly inhabits hilly to mountainous areas of the Maowen County in the Aba-Tibetan Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province. It has a population of 198,252 (by 1990); a small number lives with the Tibetan, Han...
With a population of about 29,657 (as of1990), the Pumi ethnicminority is mainly distributed in Lanping, Lijiang, Weixi and Yongsheng counties of Yunnan Province, as well as in the Yi Autonomous County of Ninglang. Some live in Muli and Yanyuan coun...
The Ozbek ethnic minority, with a population of 14,502 (as of1999), is scattered over wide areas of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Most of the Ozbeks live in compact communities in Yining, Tacheng, Kashi, Urumqi, Shache, and Yecheng. The Ozbe...
The Oroqen ethnic minority, with a population of about 6,965 (as of1990) is the third smallest of the 55 ethnic minorities in China. They mainly live in the Oroqen Autonomous Banner of Hulunbuir League in the Greater and Lesser Xing-an Mountains of...
The Nu ethnic minority, numbering some 27,123 (by 1990), live mainly in Yunnan Province's Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lanping counties, which comprise the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture. Others are found in Weixi County in the Diqing Tibetan A...
With a population of about 278,009 (as of1990), the Naxi ethnic group mainly live in concentrated communities in the Naxi Autonomous County of Lijiang in the Yunnan Province, and the rest are scattered throughout the neighboring counties in Yunnan P...
The Mulam ethnic minority has a population of 159,328 (as of1999), of which the majority live in Luocheng County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Others are scattered in neighboring counties. The Mulam language is a member of the Zhuang-Dong...
With a total population of over 4.8 million (as of1990), the Mongolians live mainly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Some are distributed in Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Others are scattered in Sichua...
