Yao people
The Yao people (its majority branch is also known as Mien simplified Chinese: 瑶族; traditional Chinese: 瑤族; pinyin: Yáozú or Dao Vietnamese: người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China and Vietnam. They are one of the 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities in China and reside in the mountainous terrain of the southwest and south. They also form one of the 54 ethnic groups officially recognized by Vietnam. They numbered 2,796,003 in the 2010 Chinese census and 891,151 in the 2019 Vietnamese census. In the United States, about 60,000 Yao of the Iu Mien branch reside mostly in the Western coastal states (est. 2023).
A Yao woman, Tiantouzhai, Longji Terraces, China, November 2010 | |
| Total population | |
| 3,500,000+ | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China: 2,796,003 (2010) Vietnam: 891,151 (2019) | |
| Languages | |
| Mienic languages, Bunu, Pa-Hng, Lakkja, Mandarin Chinese, Shaozhou Tuhua, Badong Yao, Yeheni, Vietnamese, English | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Yao folk religion, minority Buddhism |
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| Chinese | 瑶族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | người Dao | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hán-Nôm | 𠊛猺 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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