![]() A Mongol musician playing an Inner Mongolian-style morin khuur | |
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6,290,204[1][2] | |
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Simplified Chinese | 中国蒙古族 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 中國蒙古族 | ||||||
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Mongols in China,[3][4] also known as Chinese Mongolians,[5][6] are ethnic Mongols who live in China. They are one of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by the Chinese government.
As of 2020, there are 6,290,204 Mongols in China, a 0.45% increase from the 2010 national census.[1][2] Most of them live in Inner Mongolia, Northeast China, Xinjiang and Qinghai. The Mongol population in China is nearly twice as much as that of the sovereign state of Mongolia.
The quest for the standardization of Mongolian [language] in Inner Mongolia was a product as much of a domestication of the Mongols in China as a protest against the imposition of Chinese [Standard Beijing Mandarin] as the national standard language to which all minority languages were forced to conform.