Fuzhou people

Fuzhounese people
福州人; 福州儂 (Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng); 福州十邑儂;
	Hockchew women in Bible Women's Training School during a women's class in Fuzhou, 1873.
Total population
	10,000,000
Regions with significant populations
	China; Taiwan; Japan; United States (New York City); Malaysia (Sibu, Yong Peng, Sitiawan);
Languages
	Standard Chinese, Fuzhou dialect (prestige), Gutian dialect, Ningde dialect, Fuqing dialect
Religion
	Atheism, Chinese folk religions (including Taoism, Confucianism, ancestral worship and others), Chinese Buddhism, Christianity and non-religious
Related ethnic groups
	Fuzhou Americans, Putian people, Hoklo people, other Han Chinese

Fuzhou people (Chinese: 福州人; Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng), also known as Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Fuzhou Shiyi people (福州十邑人), Eastern Min or Mindong are residents of either Fuzhou and Mindong regions and the Gutian and Pingnan counties of Fujian province and Matsu Islands in Taiwan. Fuzhou people are a part of the Min Chinese-speaking group that speaks Eastern Min or specifically Fuzhou dialect. There is also a significant overseas Fuzhou population, particularly distributed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, United States (Fuzhou Americans), Singapore and the United Kingdom.^[1]