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Fuzhou people
East Asian ethnic group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Eastern Min Chinese" redirects here. For the branch of the Min group of Sinitic languages of China, see Eastern Min.
Fuzhou people (Chinese: 福州人; Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng), also known as Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Fuzhou Shiyi people (福州十邑人), Eastern Min or Mindong are residents of either Fuzhou and Mindong regions and the Gutian and Pingnan counties of Fujian province and Matsu Islands in Taiwan. Fuzhou people are a part of the Min Chinese-speaking group that speaks Eastern Min or specifically Fuzhou dialect. There is also a significant overseas Fuzhou population, particularly distributed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, United States (Fuzhou Americans), Singapore and the United Kingdom.[1]
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![]() Hockchew women in Bible Women's Training School during a women's class in Fuzhou, 1873. | |
Total population | |
10,000,000 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
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Religion | |
Atheism, Chinese folk religions (including Taoism, Confucianism, ancestral worship and others), Chinese Buddhism, Christianity and non-religious | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Fuzhou Americans, Putian people, Hoklo people, other Han Chinese |
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