Rakhine people

Rakhine people
ရခိုင်လူမျိုး (Rakhine)
A Rakhine girl tosses water at revelers during the Myanmar New Year.
Total population
4 million (2024 est.)
Regions with significant populations
 Myanmar3,600,000
 Bangladesh224,261[1]
 India50,000
Other countries50,000 - 100,000
Languages
Rakhine, Burmese
Religion
Theravada Buddhism
Related ethnic groups

The Rakhine (Burmese and Rakhine: ရခိုင်လူမျိုး, Rakhine pronunciation: [ɹəkʰàiɰ̃ lùmjó], Burmese pronunciation: [jəkʰàiɰ̃ lùmjó]) or Arakanese are a Southeast Asian ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma) forming the majority along the coastal region of present-day Rakhine State (formerly called Arakan), although Rakhine communities also exist throughout the country, particularly in the Ayeyarwady and Yangon Regions. They constitute approximately 5.53% or more of Myanmar's total population, but no accurate census figures exist. Rakhine communities exist in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts and in India, where they are known as the Marma and Mog peoples respectively.

Marma Dance of Bangladesh
  1. ^ "Table 1.4 Ethnic Population by Group and Sex" (PDF) (in Bengali). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. 2021. p. 33. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2022.