Key facts
- China yunnan sichuan
- 762,296 (2020 census)
- Myanmar shan and kachin states
- 600,000
- Thailand
- 55,000
- India arunachal pradesh
- 5,000
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Burmese name Burmeseလီဆူလူမျိုး Thai name Thaiลีสู่
The Lisu people (Lisu: ꓡꓲ‐ꓢꓴ ꓫꓵꓽ; Burmese: လီဆူလူမျိုး, [lìsʰù]; Chinese: 傈僳族; pinyin: Lìsùzú; Thai: ลีสู่) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit mountainous regions of Myanmar (Burma), southwest China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lisu people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.