Sibe people
ᠰᡞᠪᡝ Sibo, Xibe, Xibo | |
|---|---|
"Sibo military colonists" – picture drawn by Henry Lansdell during his 1882 visit to what is now Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County | |
| Total population | |
| 191,911 (2020 census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China (Liaoning · Xinjiang · Heilongjiang · Jilin · Inner Mongolia) | |
| Languages | |
| Mandarin Chinese and Sibe | |
| Religion | |
| Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Manchus, Jaegaseung, Daur, Nanai, Orok, Evenks and Solon |
The Sibe are a Tungusic-speaking East Asian ethnic group living mostly in Xinjiang, Jilin and Shenyang in Liaoning. The Sibe form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by China, and had a recorded population of 191,911 in the 2020 Chinese Census, comprising just over 0.014% of China's total population.