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Total population | |
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80,102,480 (2013)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
People's Republic of China | Zhejiang Jiangsu Shanghai Anhui Jiangxi Fujian Hong Kong Macau |
Republic of China (on Taiwan) | As part of Mainlander population |
United States | As part of Chinese American population |
Canada | As part of Chinese Canadian population |
Australia | As part of Chinese Australian population |
Italy | Majority of Chinese people in Italy |
France | Majority of Chinese people in France |
Singapore | As part of Chinese Singaporean population |
Languages | |
Wu Chinese and Standard Chinese | |
Religion | |
Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Folk religion. Small Christian minorities. | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Han Chinese subgroups |
The Wu Chinese people, also known as Wuyue people[citation needed] (simplified Chinese: 吴越人; traditional Chinese: 吳越人; pinyin: Wúyuè rén, Shanghainese: [ɦuɦyɪʔ ɲɪɲ]), Jiang-Zhe people (江浙民系) or San Kiang (三江), are a major subgroup of the Han Chinese. They are a Wu Chinese-speaking people who hail from southern Jiangsu Province, the entirety of the city of Shanghai and all of Zhejiang Province, as well as smaller populations in Xuancheng prefecture-level city in southern Anhui Province, Shangrao, Guangfeng and Yushan counties of northeastern Jiangxi Province and some parts of Pucheng County in northern Fujian Province.