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Population: 1.11 million Major areas of distribution: Xinjiang, Gansu and Qinghai Language: Kazak

Population: 7.2 million Major area of distribution: Xinjiang Language: Uygur Religion: Islam

Population: 1,923,400 Major areas of distribution: Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang Language: Korean and Han

Population: 11,700 Major area of distribution: Gansu Language: Bonan Religion: IThe Bonan is one of China's smallest ethnic minorities, with only 11,700 people. Its language belongs to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic language family and is close to that of the Tu and Dongxiang ethnic minorities. Due to long years of contacts and exchanges with the neighboring Han and Hui people, the Bonan people have borrowed quite a number of words from the Han language. The Han language is accepted as the common written language among the Bonans.

Population: 160,600 Major area of distribution: Guangxi Language: Mulam Religion: Taoism and Buddhism

Population: 27,200 Major area of distribution: Yunnan Language: Nu Religion: Polytheis The Nu ethnic minority, numbering some 27,200, live mainly in Yunnan Province's Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lanping counties, which comprise the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture. Others are found in Weixi County in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.