Key facts
- Gansu province significant
- n/a
- Qinghai small pop
- n/a
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Part of
- Mongolic peoples
- Religion
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Country
- China
- Population
- 24434
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bonans
- language used
- Bonan
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bonan people (Chinese: 保安族; pinyin: Bǎo'ānzú) are an ethno-linguistic group distinct from all other Mongolic peoples, living in Gansu and Qinghai provinces in Northwestern China. They are one of the "titular nationalities" of Gansu's Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County, which is located south of the Yellow River, near Gansu's border with Qinghai.
Bonan are the 10th-smallest (47th out of 56) of the ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. 95% of Bonan live in Jishishan County, numbering 21,400 of the county's population.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bonan people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.