What are the top ten countries with the largest number of Chinese in the world?

Tenth, Myanmar, 165438+ ten thousand Chinese, accounting for 1.92% of the total population. /kloc-before the 8th century, China people moved to northern Myanmar to do business. At that time, most of them came from Yunnan province, but some other ethnic groups in China lived on the border between China and Myanmar? Courageous area? . At 1897? Courageous area? Being ceded to Britain, local Chinese automatically became local minorities in Myanmar. 1982 Myanmar passed a new nationality law, which excluded foreigners and made it difficult for Chinese to gain a foothold. So many people moved to Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong, Australia or America, and the descendants left behind gradually merged with the local people and gave birth to offspring. Their appearance and customs have been localized, and their language is only Burmese without Chinese.

Ninth place, Philippines, 1 15000 Chinese. The total population of the Philippines 1 100 million Chinese, accounting for 1. 15%. Most of the ancestors of local Filipinos came from southern Fujian, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Xiamen. According to anthropologists' research, Chinese people in the Philippines account for 20% of the total population, which may exceed10 million.

Even Riza, the founding father of the Philippines, is Chinese. In the past, due to the underdeveloped education of local Chinese and their belief in Catholicism, local Chinese were gradually assimilated in culture. Only a quarter of China people learn Chinese with China characteristics, and Minnan is the common language of the Chinese community. Chinese are almost all over the Philippines.

Eighth, Vietnam has 654.38+2600 Chinese, accounting for 654.38+0.365.438+0% of the total population. Before the country's independence, Viet Nam was a frontier area ruled by the ancient Central Plains dynasty in China. During the Qin Dynasty's unification war, some southern residents fled to Vietnam. After the conquest of the war, most soldiers were left behind to defend the frontier. They are China people who entered Vietnam in the early days.

Until the early Song Dynasty, China immigrants brought advanced domestic agricultural technology, which promoted the economic development and social progress of Viet Nam. Chinese characters became the common language of Vietnam in the12nd century, and Vietnamese characters appeared in the13rd century, all of which evolved from Chinese characters. At present, local Chinese use Hakka dialect in education, societies, newspapers and other activities, and Mandarin is not popular. It is only used as a transaction in some scenic spots. At present, local languages are mainly used in Vietnam.

Seventh place, Peru. 1.3 million China people account for 4.65% of the total population. According to the original data, the number of Chinese citizens in Peru is as high as 5 million, accounting for 20% of the national population. Early Chinese immigrated to the local area and had a hard life. At that time, a small number of human trafficking groups, composed of British, French and Spanish, traveled across the ocean to China, Guangdong and Fujian, offering attractive conditions to abduct/kloc-0.00000 China people to Peru, and also peddle them? Piggy? After being sold to entrepreneurs and planters, they began to work in the railway mine guano plantation at 4 am every day. The supervisor is still holding a gun and facing all kinds of cruel abuse and killing.

This miserable life ended in 1873 when China's trade was banned. But at that time, the people were very disappointed with the Qing government and hated the decision to stay in the local area, integrate into the Peruvian ethnic group and reproduce. Most Chinese in Peru can speak many languages, at least Mandarin and Chinese dialects.

Sixth place, Canada, with 6.5438+0.8 million Chinese accounting for 4.86% of the total population, of which mixed-race Chinese account for about 10 million. As early as 1788, British ships hired 70 China people from Macau to settle in Vancouver. After 1858, there were lower-class people in Guangdong province who wanted to emigrate and return to their hometown after collecting money. As a result, laws prohibiting Chinese immigrants and Chinese exclusion were passed, so local Chinese could only do business by themselves.

After World War II, the Canadian government signed the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which lifted the restrictions on Chinese and gave them citizen treatment. Most local Chinese speak Cantonese, 44% of them are from Hong Kong, others are from Cantonese-speaking areas in China, and some are born in Canada. Mandarin is the second language.

Fifth, there are 2.8 million Chinese in Singapore, accounting for 50% of the total population. Singapore's permanent population is only 3.4 million, so the Chinese population accounts for 74.2%. Singapore is also the only country outside China with a majority Chinese population. Before 1970s, Fujian dialect was the common language of local Chinese, and it was also the communication language between other ethnic groups and Chinese. I didn't speak Mandarin until 1979. In the Song Dynasty, China people entered Singapore, mostly from Fujian and Guangdong. Their living habits are similar, so it is easy to blend in.

Fourth, in the United States, 4.52 million Chinese account for 1.37% of the total population. 1868, because of the gold rush, the western part of the United States was in urgent need of labor, and signed the Sino-US Trade Treaty with the Qing government, stipulating that Chinese people should listen to their freedom when they moved to the United States, attracting a large number of Chinese workers to enter the United States. At that time, the political and economic situation in the south was turbulent, and many workers went to the United States from Guangdong Province to work. They signed long-term employment contracts for advance payment and sent all their wages back to their hometown, and they no longer had any hope of returning home alive.

Now many China people go to the United States to study and work, and many white people adopt children from China. A large number of China people are concentrated in cities. Chinese is the third largest language in the United States. Although English is the lingua franca, most people in China will teach their children to learn Chinese for the sake of cultural heritage. Simplified Chinese is the written language commonly used by local Chinese, but most American slogans use traditional Chinese characters.

The third place is Malaysia with 6.3 million Chinese, accounting for 19.6% of the total population. The local Chinese are mainly descendants who moved from Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China. Zheng He's voyage to the Western Seas left the earliest traces of China people coming to Malaysia, and it is estimated that the crew also stayed in various countries on the way. Malacca's culture is closely integrated, and there are many mixed-race people. The local Chinese can speak many Chinese dialects, but the diploma in Chinese education is not recognized in the Malaysian Federation, but it is recognized in Ma Sala.

2. Seven million Chinese in Thailand account for 10. 1% of the total population. The trade between Thailand and China began at 1367. At the end of 17 century, the Chinese population in Thailand was about 654.38+million, accounting for 10% of the local population. Most of them came from commercial ports in Guangdong and Fujian, and the King of Thailand treated Chinese as his own and gave them special treatment. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, more and more China immigrants spread all over Thailand, Chinese businessmen began to grasp the lifeline of Thailand's economy, and local people began to feel anti-Chinese, so overseas Chinese in Thailand took the initiative to use Thai as their new surname to protect themselves. This event is called the renaming movement. The prime ministers in Thai history are all overseas Chinese, but they all use Thai names instead of Chinese names.

In the 1990s, local TV stations often organized some programs to emphasize the role of overseas Chinese in Thailand, and also emphasized that overseas Chinese in Thailand are Thai like other ethnic groups. With the development of China, Chinese education has taken root in Thailand, learning Chinese has become a new fashion, and the proportion of students in Chinese schools in Thailand is increasing.

The first place is Indonesia, with 7.7 million Chinese, accounting for 2.89% of the local population. In history, in addition to Chinese businessmen, there were also contract workers who came to work in Indonesia during the Republic of China. Basically, the Chinese system in Indonesia is more mature and urbanized than the locals.

However, despite its high economic status, it is still marginalized. There have been many anti-China incidents, the use of Chinese has been banned and the use of Chinese in public places has been threatened. In recent years, with the rise of China, millions of Chinese talents have regained the right to learn and use Chinese from 65438 to 0998.