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Regions with significant populations | |
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![]() | 642,753 (2019)[1] |
![]() | 50,000 |
![]() | 10,000 |
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Languages | |
Cantonese (native language), Mandarin, English (majority) Portuguese, Macanese (minority) | |
Religion | |
Non-religious with Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and other faiths | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Cantonese people, Hongkongers, Hakka people, Tanka people, Chinese Brazilian |
Macau people | |||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 澳門人 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 澳门人 | ||||||||||||||||
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Macau people (Chinese: 澳門人) are people who originate from or live in Macau.
Besides their use to refer to Macau residents, these terms may also be used more loosely to refer to those who may not be residents, but have lived in the city for an extensive period of time or have a strong cultural connection with Macau. Macau people do not comprise one particular ethnicity, and people that live in Macau are independent of Chinese citizenship and residency status. The majority of Macau people are of Chinese descent and are ethnic Han Chinese (with most having ancestral roots in the province of Guangdong). Macau people with Portuguese ancestry are known as the Macanese.[2]