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Han Chinese

"Han people" redirects here. For the Han people of Korea, see Koreans. For citizens and residents of China, see Chinese people.
For the Chinese imperial dynasty, see Han dynasty. For the spoken language, see Standard Chinese.

Han Chinese
漢族; 汉族
A Han Chinese couple wearing hanfu (2013)
Total population
1.4 billion[1]
Regions with significant populations
People's Republic of China
1,285,001,720[2]
Republic of China (Taiwan)
>22,000,000[3][4]
Thailand7,053,240[5]
Malaysia6,910,000[6]
United States3,795,000–5,789,817[7][8]
Indonesia2,832,510[9]
Singapore2,670,000[10]
Myanmar1,638,000[11]
Canada1,469,000[12]
Philippines1,350,000[13]
Australia1,214,000[14]
Vietnam992,600[15]
Japan922,000[16]
United Kingdom433,000[17]
Peru376,000[18]
Italy334,000[19]
New Zealand231,000[20]
Germany212,000[21]
South Korea210,000[22][a]
Cambodia210,000[23]
Argentina200,000[24][25]
Laos185,765[5]
Spain172,000[26]
Mexico70,000[27]
Brunei42,132[28]
Russia28,943[29]
Colombia25,000[30]
Costa Rica19,000[31]
Republic of Ireland27,000[32]
Languages
Chinese
Religion
Predominantly Irreligious, Chinese folk religion (including Taoism, ancestral worship, Confucianism and others), Mahayana Buddhism
Minority Christianity,[33] Islam[34]
Related ethnic groups
Bai • Hui
Other Sino-Tibetan peoples
Han Chinese
Traditional Chinese漢族
Simplified Chinese汉族
Literal meaningHan ethnic group

The Han Chinese or Han people[b] are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. They are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17.5% of the global population.

The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in China—including mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau—with a global population of over 1.4 billion. They have had the greatest influence on the development and growth of Chinese civilization.[2] In Taiwan, Han Taiwanese make up about 97% of the population.[35][36] People of Han Chinese descent also make up around 75% of Singaporean residents.[37] The term "Han" not only refers to a specific ethnic collective, but also represents an identity belonging to a distinctive people denoted with a particular set of behavioral attributes, cultural traits, genetic markers, historical background, and societal characteristics which has exerted a significant formative influence in shaping the development and growth of Chinese civilization.[38][39][40]

Originating from Northern China, the Han Chinese trace their ancestry to the Huaxia, a confederation of agricultural tribes that lived along the Yellow River.[41][42][43] They had their origins along the Central Plains around the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in Northern China.[44][45][46][43] These confederation of tribes were the ancestors of the modern Han Chinese people as well as the progenitors of Chinese civilization.[47]

The term "Huaxia" was used by the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius's contemporaries, during the Warring States era, to elucidate the shared ethnicity of all Chinese;[48] Chinese people called themselves Hua Ren.[49] Within the course of the Warring States period led to the emergence of the early discernible consciousness of the Zhou-era Chinese referring to themselves as being Huaxia (literally, "the beautiful grandeur"), which was distinctively used to adumbrate a "civilized" culture in contrast to what were perceived as "barbaric" towards the adjacent and adjoining vicinities bordering the Zhou Kingdoms that were inhabited by different non-Han Chinese peoples around them.[50][45][51][52] People of Han Chinese ancestry who possess foreign citizenship of a different country are commonly referred as Hua people (华人; 華人; Huárén) or Huazu (华族; 華族; Huázú). The two respective aforementioned terms are applied solely to those with a Han ethnic background that is semantically distinct from Zhongguo Ren (中国人; 中國人) which has connotations and implications limited to being citizens and nationals of China, especially with regards to people of non-Han Chinese ethnicity.[53][54][39]

The Huaxia tribes in Northern China continuously expanded into Southern China over the past two millennia, via military conquests and colonisation.[55][56] Huaxia culture spread southward from its northern heartland in the Yellow River Basin into the south, absorbing various non-Han ethnic groups that became sinicised over the centuries at various points in Chinese history.[57][56][45]

The name "Han people" first appeared during the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was inspired by the Han dynasty, which is considered to be one of the first golden ages in Chinese history. As a unified and cohesive empire, Han China emerged as the center of East Asian geopolitical influence at the time, projecting much of its hegemony onto its East Asian neighbours and was comparable with the contemporary Roman Empire in population size, geographical and cultural reach.[58][59][60][61] The Han dynasty's prestige and prominence influenced many of the ancient Huaxia to identify themselves as "The People of Han."[50][62][63][64][65] To this day, the Han Chinese have since taken their ethnic name from this dynasty and the Chinese script is referred to as "Han characters."[59][66][64]

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