the manchu people are scattered among hans in beijing and the area northeast of beijing. they could have indicates tiny dots, but it would be so tiny that they are invisible in the maps.

as for han people in minority dominated areas, they mostly concentrate in urban areas (e.g. urumqi in xinjiang), so they shouldn’t affect the colors of the maps too much, i think.
so in repsonse to Jing’s comment, it is true that his statistics are probably correct. but the map colors are not too outdated (it probably represents what it is some 20-50 years ago in terms of stats, most have changed in highly populated cities, but not too much has changed in the mountains/villages)

i have been to some of these areas, include northwest, and northeast bordering korea. one of the reasons that many opted for minority status is because of tax benefits etc. so you can imagine a han dominated county declaring to be korean so that they have better tax benefits, and also a children of han and uighur cross-marriage declaring himself to be uighur.

bearing these subtleties in mind, the map is still pretty illustrative.

“The Sky is Falling and other Assorted Prophecies of Doom,” by Jing, Those Who Dare, 14 June 2005, http://thosewhodare.blogspot.com/2005/06/sky-is-falling-and-other-assorted.html.

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Thanks to Alex for pointing out the Ethnologue reference. Good stuff to know, I’ve been educated.

Great book for the enthnolinguistic history of the region – Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia by Grousset. A classic.

Yeah, I bet most are, and the few who still speak Manchu (about 60 according to Ethnologue, of an ethnic population of almost 2M) plus the Xibe fall under “Tungusic”.

Manchu has its own language and letters, which belong to the Manchu-Tungusic group of the Altaic language family. Manchu letters were created in the 16th century on the base of Mongolian letters. With more and more Manchus settling in the Central Plains since the Qing Dynasty, the economic and cultural exchange between Hans and Manchus became more and more frequent and the Manchus gradually adopted the Han language.

Perhaps many Manchu are included in Han in this “ethnolinguistic” map.

Any such maps of Iran?