Manchu people
ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ · 满族 | |
|---|---|
 Manchus dressed as royal family | |
| Total population | |
10,682,263
 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China | 10,423,303 (2020 census) |
| Taiwan | 12,000 (2004 estimate) |
| Hong Kong | 1,000 (1997 estimate) |
| Languages | |
| Manchu (native) Mandarin Chinese (dominant) | |
| Religion | |
| Manchu shamanism, Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Tungusic peoples | |
| Manchu people | |||||||
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| Manchu name | |||||||
| Manchu script | ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ | ||||||
| Möllendorff | manju | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 滿洲 / 滿族 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 满洲 / 满族 | ||||||
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The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and Qing (1636–1912) dynasties of China were established and ruled by the Manchus, who are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier established the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) in northern China.
The Manchus are the largest branch of the Tungusic peoples and are distributed throughout China, forming the country's fourth-largest ethnic group. They inhabit 31 Chinese provincial regions. Liaoning has the largest population and Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, and Beijing each have over 100,000 Manchu residents. About half of the population lives in Liaoning and one-fifth in Hebei. Manchu autonomous counties in China include Xinbin, Xiuyan, Qinglong, Fengning, Yitong, Qingyuan, Weichang, Kuancheng, Benxi, Kuandian, Huanren, Fengcheng, and Beizhen, including over 300 Manchu towns and townships.