Wu Chinese-speaking people

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Wu Chinese
吳越民系 江浙民系

Total population
80,102,480 (2013)[1]
Regions with significant populations
People's Republic of China	Zhejiang Jiangsu Shanghai Anhui Jiangxi Fujian Hong Kong Macau
Republic of China (on Taiwan)	As part of Mainlander population
United States	As part of Chinese American population
Canada	As part of Chinese Canadian population
Australia	As part of Chinese Australian population
Italy	Majority of Chinese people in Italy
France	Majority of Chinese people in France
Singapore	As part of Chinese Singaporean population
Languages
Wu Chinese and Standard Chinese
Religion
Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Folk religion. Small Christian minorities.
Related ethnic groups
Other Han Chinese subgroups

The Wu Chinese people, also known as Wuyue people^{[citation needed]} (simplified Chinese: 吴越人; traditional Chinese: 吳越人; pinyin: Wúyuè rén, Shanghainese: [ɦuɦyɪʔ ɲɪɲ]), Jiang-Zhe people (江浙民系) or San Kiang (三江), are a major subgroup of the Han Chinese. They are a Wu Chinese-speaking people who hail from southern Jiangsu Province, the entirety of the city of Shanghai and all of Zhejiang Province, as well as smaller populations in Xuancheng prefecture-level city in southern Anhui Province, Shangrao, Guangfeng and Yushan counties of northeastern Jiangxi Province and some parts of Pucheng County in northern Fujian Province.