 A mix wedding of East Timorese and Chinese Hakka people in East Timor, where the four flower girls and the mother of the bride on the far right are of Chinese Hakka descent. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 4,000[1]—20,000 (Historically) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 East Timor Australia | |
| Languages | |
| Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese (Hakka, Cantonese, Mandarin), Tetum, Macanese | |
| Religion | |
| Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Chinese Indonesians, Macanese people |
Chinese people in East Timor consist of Chinese migrants to East Timor and their descendants. The Chinese minority is a small proportion of the East Timorese population and most are Hakka and a small number of Cantonese within the populace. Many Chinese left during the mid-1970s.[2][3]
- ^ Huber 2021.
- ^ Constâncio Pinto; Matthew Jardine (1997). East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the East Timorese Resistance. South End Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-89608-541-1.
- ^ "CIA - The World Factbook -- East Timor". CIA. Retrieved 23 February 2014.