Demographic features of the population of Hong Kong include population density,ethnicity,education level,the health of the populace,religious affiliations,and other aspects.
Guangdong,previously romanized as Kwangtung or Canton,is a coastal province in South China,on the north shore of the South China Sea. The provincial capital is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.84 million across a total area of about 179,800 km2 (69,400 sq mi),Guangdong is China's most populous province and its 15th-largest by area,as well as the third-most populous country subdivision in the world.
The Hakka,sometimes also referred to as Hakka-speaking Chinese,or Hakka Chinese,or Hakkas,are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan,a Han Chinese dialect spoken in Jiangxi province. They are differentiated from other southern Han Chinese by their dispersed nature and tendency to occupy marginal lands and remote hilly areas. The Chinese characters for Hakka literally mean "guest families".
Yue is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China,particularly in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Beihai is a prefecture-level city in the south of Guangxi,People's Republic of China. Its status as a seaport on the north shore of the Gulf of Tonkin has granted it historical importance as a port of international trade for Guangxi,Hunan,Hubei,Sichuan,Guizhou,and Yunnan. Between the years 2006 and 2020,Beihai was predicted to be the world's fastest growing city. Beihai has a large shipyard,but most of the money generated in the city is derived from trade.
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese,a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family,which has over 85 million native speakers. It originated in the city of Guangzhou and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While the term Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety,in linguistics it has often been used to refer to the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese,including related but partially mutually intelligible varieties like Taishanese.
The Hoklo people are a Han Chinese subgroup who speak Hokkien,a Southern Min language,or trace their ancestry to southeastern Fujian in China,and known by various related terms such as Banlam people,Minnan people,Fujianese people or more commonly in Southeast Asia as the Hokkien people. The Hokkien people are found in significant numbers in mainland China,Taiwan,Hong Kong,Macau,Singapore,Malaysia,Philippines,Indonesia,Brunei,Myanmar,and the United States. The Hokkien people have a distinct culture and architecture,including Hokkien shrines and temples with tilted sharp eaves,high and slanted top roofs,and finely detailed decorative inlays of wood and porcelain. The Hokkien language,which includes Taiwanese Hokkien,is the mainstream Southern Min,which is partially mutually intelligible to the Teochew language,Hainanese,Leizhou Min,and Haklau Min.
The Boat Dwellers,also known as Shuishangren or Boat People,or the derogatory Tankas,are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China who traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong,Guangxi,Fujian,Hainan,Shanghai,Zhejiang and along the Yangtze river,as well as Hong Kong,and Macau. The Boat Dwellers are referred to with other names outside of Guangdong.
The Han Chinese people can be defined into subgroups based on linguistic,cultural,ethnic,genetic,and regional features. The terminology used in Mandarin to describe the groups is:"minxi",used in Mainland China or "zuqun",used in Taiwan. No Han subgroup is recognized as one of People's Republic of China's 56 official ethnic groups. In Taiwan,only three subgroups,Hakka,Hoklo,and Waishengren are recognized.
The Cantonese people or Yue people,are a Han Chinese subgroup originating from Guangzhou and its satellite cities and towns. In a more general sense "Cantonese people" can refer to any Han Chinese people originating from or residing in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi,or it may refer to the inhabitants of Guangdong province alone.
The Weitou dialect or Wai Tau dialect is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It forms part of the Guan–Bao branch of Yuehai. It is spoken by older generations in Luohu and Futian districts in Shenzhen,and by those in the New Territories,Hong Kong.
The Punti–Hakka Clan Wars were a conflict between the Hakka and the Cantonese people in Guangdong,China between 1855 and 1867. The wars were most fierce around the Pearl River Delta,especially in Toi Shan of the Sze Yup counties. The wars resulted in roughly a million dead with many more displaced civilians.
Indigenous inhabitants are people descended through the male line from a person who was in 1898,before Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory was signed,a resident of an established village in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
The Convention between the United Kingdom and China,Respecting an Extension of Hong Kong Territory,commonly known as the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory or the Second Convention of Peking,was a lease and unequal treaty signed between Qing China and the United Kingdom in Peking on 9 June 1898,leasing to the United Kingdom for 99 years,at no charge,the New Territories and northern Kowloon,including 235 islands.
Cantonese people represent the largest group in Hong Kong. The definition usually includes people whose ancestral homes are in Yue Chinese speaking regions of Guangdong province,specifically the guangfu (廣府) region,although sometimes Sze Yap people,the Hakka people or Teochew people may be included. Historic Hong Kong censuses distinguished people of Guangdong origin into Guangzhou and Macau,Sze Yap (Siyi),Chaozhou,and Hainan origins,as well as the Indigenous people of the New Territories.
The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan languages,a geographically designated branch of Austronesian languages,have been spoken by the Taiwanese indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Owing to the wide internal variety of the Formosan languages,research on historical linguistics recognizes Taiwan as the Urheimat (homeland) of the whole Austronesian languages family. In the last 400 years,several waves of Han emigrations brought several different Sinitic languages into Taiwan. These languages include Taiwanese Hokkien,Hakka,and Mandarin,which have become the major languages spoken in present-day Taiwan.
Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of Cantonese spoken primarily in Hong Kong. As the most commonly spoken language in Hong Kong,it shares a recent and direct lineage with the Guangzhou (Canton) dialect.
Hongkongers,Hong Kongers,Hong Kongese,Hongkongese,Hong Kong citizens and Hong Kong people are demonyms that refer to a resident of Hong Kong,although they may also refer to others who were born and/or raised in the territory.
The Qin–Lian language is a southern branch of Yue Chinese spoken in the coastal part of Guangxi,including 3 main cities:Beihai,Qinzhou,Fangchenggang,and four subject counties:Hepu,Pubei,Lingshan,Dongxing.
