The population of Mongolian in China is 58 1000 (2000 census), ranking sixth among the ethnic minorities in China. Mainly distributed in Northeast China, in Xinjiang, Hebei, Qinghai and Gansu, and the rest are scattered in Henan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Beijing and Yunnan. Ewenki (27,000) and Tu (240,000) are sometimes considered as branches of Mongols. Chinese Mongolians are mainly distributed in the northeast of China. 700,000 in Liaoning, more than 700,000 in Jihei and 4170,000 in Inner Mongolia; There are 3.4 million people in Mengdong, including more than 5,000 in Yunnan, who live in Mengxin Township, Tonghai County, and are divided into five natural villages: Zhongcun, Xiacun, Baige, Jiaoyiwan and Taojiazui. They are descendants of Mongols who stayed in Yunnan with Kublai Khan in the early years of Mengyuan (Tuo Lei Khanate). It has been more than 740 years since Tonghai Mongols came to the lake of Qihu and the foot of Fengshan in Yunnan Plateau from the prairie in the northwest of the motherland.
The total population of Mongolia is about 2.8 million (2.65 million in July 2006), of which 80% are Khalkha Mongolians.
There are about 1 ten thousand Mongolians in Russia. There are Buryat Mongolians in Siberia (about 400,000 people), Ewenki (considered as a branch of Inner Mongolians in Russia) (about 30,000 people in Russia), Uirat people including 65,438+07,000 people in kalmyk and Durbots, and Tuva people in China who were originally Tangnuou Liang Hai, the outer Mongolia of the Qing Empire. In addition, Hazaras (nearly 4 million people) distributed in Afghanistan, Iran and other places are mixed-race descendants of Mongols and other ethnic groups in Central Asia.
People whose nationality is China are from China, and people whose nationality is other countries are foreigners.