10.2003 - Source: UK Home Office

Manchu ("Country Report - October 2003") [#49232],  [ID 4412]

"6.223. Currently estimates vary from 4 to 9.8 million. [16e][16l] Estimates vary so much because of the close integration of Manchus with the Han population. The Manchus inhabit the area of former Manchuria and adjacent provinces (Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces, far north-east China.) [16e]

6.224. Since the fall of the last Chinese Dynasty in 1912, the Manchus have been completely sinicised: fully integrated and indistinguishable from the Han majority of Chinese society. [16e] There is a separate Manchu language and script, but Manchus are essential bilingual and bilateral in Standard Chinese. [16l]"

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