Gin people
京族 Người Kinh (𠊛京) | |
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| Total population | |
| 33,112 (2020 census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China (Wutou, Wanwei and Shanxin islands off the coast of Dongxing, Guangxi) | |
| Languages | |
| Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese, and Vietnamese | |
| Religion | |
| Folk religion · Mahayana Buddhism · Taoism · Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Viet people, Muong, Chứt, Thổ |
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| Chinese | 京族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Kinh tộc Người Kinh tại Trung Quốc | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 京族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chữ Nôm | 𠊛京在中國 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gin or Jing people (Chinese: 京族, Sino-Vietnamese: Kinh tộc; Vietnamese: người Kinh tại Trung Quốc) are a community of descendants of ethnic Viet people living in China. They mainly live in an area called the Jing Islands (京族三岛), off the coast of Dongxing, Fangchenggang, in the Chinese autonomous region of Guangxi. These territories were administered by the Nguyễn dynasty but were later ceded by the French to the Qing dynasty due to the 1887 convention, after the Sino-French war.
The Gin population was 33,112 as of 2020. This number does not include the 36,205 Vietnamese nationals studying or working in Mainland China, recorded by the 2010 national population census.