Statistics for The 56 Chinese Ethnicities

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
91.6474%(1000M) Most of the Chinese people we meet. 汉族	Han	98%
0.7555%(10M) Men of this ehnicity traditionally carry a knife everywhere they go, but has been prohibited from doing this by the Chinese gov't. Think of Ürümqi! ئۇيغۇر	Uyghur	89%
0.4713%(6M) Long history of oppression, within it, a culture of beauty and rising dragons in the sunlight. བོད་པ་	Tibet	88%
0.4488%(5M) Major ethnicity of China's northern neighbor. ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ	Mongol	87%
0.1374%(1M) Our culture is something much more than kpop. 중국조선족	Korean	84%
0.7794%(10M) Mainly resides in the vast plains of ___ria. ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ	Manchu	82%
0.1097%(1M) Sky blue field with a golden eagle, a sun with 32 rays and an ornate pattern. Anything familiar? қазақтар	Kazakh	79%
0.7943%(10M) Largest minority with Islamic beliefs. خُوِذُو	Hui	71%
<0.01%(<100K) They utterly differ from the well known ____s from the stan country.They speak Sarikoli, not ___. tujik ziv	Tajik	70%
<0.04%(<500K) Red background, yellow fiery ball which is actually a yurt in the middle. And they escaped from the Russians trying to slaughter them. Again, familiar? Кыргыз	Kyrgyz	68%
<0.01%(<100K) A surprisingly small number of people, if you ask me. Pусские	Russian	65%
1.27%(16M) Mainly resides in the Guangxi region. Bouxcuengh	Zhuang	64%
<0.001%(<100K) Last of the ethnic groups from the stans. Oʻzbeklar	Uzbek	63%
<0.04%(<500K) Their DNAs indicate that Greeks mixed with an East Asian population at around 1200 CE.	Tu	61%
0.7072%(9M) Some may be preferably referred to as Hmong. Hmongb	Miao	59%
0.1098%(1M) The Beijing gov't likes them because they fought against the Kuomintang and for the Communist party. Hlai	Li	54%
0.6538%(8M) The Sichuan __ language. ꆈꌠ	Yi	53%
0.0532%(708K) Earliest settlers of Guangdong, speaks Hakka influenced language and not pronounced like the female pronoun. 山客話	She	50%
0.2161%(2M) They cover the dead in wet money paper as a part of an elaborate funeral procedure. Gaeml	Dong	47%
0.1451%(1M) "White people" literally, since they hold the color as of high esteem. Baipho	Bai	46%
0.0003%(3556) Relatives of those from ___stan, Russia. تاتار	Tatar	45%
0.0946%(1M) Xishuangbanna ___ autonomous prefecture. ᦅᧄᦺᦑᦟ	Dai	44%
<0.04%(<500K) Legend says that they are people originated from two female ancestors Ya Htawm and Ya Htai who used to be tadpoles. Va	Wa	41%
0.0003%(4009) Indigenous people of the island. Some of them are even related to the ethnic groups of Madagascar.	Taiwanese Aborigines	40%
<0.01%(<100K) Ethnically Vietnamese. Kinh tộc, 粤	Gin	37%
<0.01%(<500K) Ma, along with Han, is the most widespread surname as it substitutes for Muhammad. سالارچا	Salar	33%
<0.04%(<500K) Their language (literally "water language") has as much as 70 consonants, and they use their own script, only for divination purposes. They use written Mandarin for daily purposes. 水族	Sui	33%
0.2098%(2M) A minority group in Vietnam as well. người Dao	Yao	33%
0.6268%(8M) They worship a white tiger totem traditionally. 毕孜卡	Tujia	32%
<0.01%(<100K) Traditionally used to drink reindeer milk in the Russian north. Эвэнкил	Evenki	31%
0.0466%(621K) independent ethnic group arose through contact with Central Asians. Christmas? دْوݣسِيْاݣ	Dongxiang	29%
0.1246%(1M) They build their houses with bamboo, stone and mud. Haqniq	Hani	29%
<0.001%(<10K) Self designated as people of the land. Нанай	Hezhen	29%
0.2153%(2M) They actually counsider themselves as the Z____ people. buxQyaix	Bouyei	27%
0.0527%(702K) Originated from Tibet even before the Tibets. လီဆူလူမျိုး	Lisu	27%
<0.04%(<500K) They were heavily influenced by the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. Rrmea	Qiang	27%
<0.01%(<100K) Descendants of the people who fled from Mongolia when the Uyghur Khaganate collapsed in 840. yoɣïr lar	Yugur	27%
<0.01%(<500K) The former name Dahur is considered derogatory. Дагуур	Daur	24%
<0.04%(<500K) They live in the Xinjiang province, located in the far west as well as Liaoning and Jilin, located in the far east bordering North Korea. ᠰᡞᠪᡝ	Xibe	24%
<0.01%(<100K) Music and dancing is a huge part of their culture. They use Chinese characters to write their language. 阿昌族	Achang	23%
<0.04%(<500K) With the Lao ethnic group, they were recruited by the CIA to fight against the communist Pathet Lao. Ladhof	Lahu	22%
<0.04%(<500K) They are known for their known for their fierce independence, disciplined fighting skills, embrace of Christianity, herbal healing and jungle survival skills. Jinghpaw	Jingpo	21%
<0.001%(<10K) Mainly hunters, the Chinese gov't is persuading them to abandon their traditional life style of hunting. (NO WRITTEN FORM)	Oroqen	21%
<0.01%(<100K) Believed to have been descended from Muslim Mongol soldiers (NO WRITTEN FORM)	Bonan	20%
0.0413%(550K) Most of them practices Taoism. Kláo	Gelao	20%
<0.01%(<100K) The gov't helped them create a latin based script for their language. Despite that, (NO WRITTEN FORM)	Nu	20%
<0.04%(<500K) Exceptionally harboring a rich and distinct culture, they also have their own religion based on the Tibetan Bon religion, the Dongba. (COULDN'T FIND INFO)	Nakhi	19%
<0.04%(<500K) They wear jackets with large buttons. 仫佬族	Mulao	17%
<0.01%(<500K) Rhymes with slang. And they speak a language called "U". Pouma	Blang	16%
<0.01%(<100K) They typically reside at elevations above 9000 feet. (NO CURRENT WRITTEN FORM)	Pumi	16%
<0.001%(<10K) Not to be confused with the duleng people, a subethnic of another ethnic group. Most of them speak Mandarin and Burmese as well. Tvrung kvt	Derung	15%
0.0003%(3682) Diverse amalgamation of Sino-Tibetan-speaking tribespeople living in a region in southeastern Tibet. (COULDN'T FIND INFO)	Lhoba	15%
<0.01%(<100K) They were the last recognized national minority, recognized in 1979. (NO WRITTEN FORM)	Jino	14%
<0.01%(<100K) Poppy cultivation during the fight against the Burmese gov't instigated a serious drug addiction among their people. (COULDN'T FIND INFO)	De'ang	13%
<0.01%(<500K) Over 80% have the same surname, Tan. (NO WRITTEN FORM)	Maonan	13%
<0.001%(<100K) Residing in Tibet, larger numbers of these people live in India, and about 3000 live in Bhutan. མོན་པ་	Monba	12%