China's Autonomous Areas - Page 3 Some autonomous areas have more than one specified minority, which tend to be listed in the name of the prefecture, creating rather long names. Two autonomous counties simply use "Various Nationalities" in their names as placeholders, rather than listing out all of their designated ethnicities:
Of the five autonomous regions, only Tibet has an absolute majority (greater than 50%) of the designated ethnic group, namely, the Tibetans. Xinjiang has a plurality (greater than 50%) of the designated ethnic group, the Uyghurs, though this is disputed by Uyghur independence advocates, who claim that the Han Chinese population in Xinjiang has been severely understated. The remaining 3 autonomous regions have absolute majorities of Han Chinese, the majority ethnicity of China. |