Sibe people

Sibe
ᠰᡞᠪᡝ
Sibo, Xibo
"Sibo military colonists", picture drawn by Henry Lansdell during his 1882 visit to what is now Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County
Total population
190,481
Regions with significant populations
 China (Liaoning · Xinjiang · Heilongjiang · Jilin · Inner Mongolia)
Languages
Mandarin Chinese and Sibe
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism[1]
Related ethnic groups
Manchus, Daur, Nanai, Orok, Evenks and Solon

The Sibe or Xibo[2] (ᠰᡞᠪᡝ, , IPA: [ɕivə];[2] simplified Chinese: 锡伯; traditional Chinese: 錫伯; pinyin: Xībó), are a Tungusic-speaking East Asian ethnic group living mostly in Xinjiang, Jilin and Shenyang in Liaoning.[2] The Sibe form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by China, and had a recorded population of 190,481 in the 2010 Chinese Census, comprising just over 0.014% of China's total population.[3]

  1. ^ Huang Beibei, ed. (2011-11-12). "The Xibe ethnic minority". People's Daily. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  2. ^ a b c Zikmundová 2013, p. 10.
  3. ^ 1-6 各地区分性别、民族的人口 [1-6 Population by sex, ethnicity and region]. www.stats.gov.cn (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2010. Archived from the original on 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-11.

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