Fuzhou people

Fuzhounese people
福州人; 福州儂 (Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng); 福州十邑儂;
	Hockchew women in Bible Women's Training School during a women's class in Fuzhou, 1873.
Total population
	10,000,000
Regions with significant populations
	China; Taiwan; Japan; United States (New York City); Malaysia (Sibu, Yong Peng, Sitiawan);
Languages
	Standard Chinese, Fuzhou dialect (prestige), Gutian dialect, Ningde dialect, Fuqing dialect
Religion
	Atheism, Chinese folk religions (including Taoism, Confucianism, ancestral worship and others), Chinese Buddhism, Christianity and non-religious
Related ethnic groups
	Fuzhou Americans, Minbei people, Putian people, Fuzhou Tanka, other Chinese people

Fuzhou people (Chinese: 福州人; Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng), also known as Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Fuzhou Shiyi people (福州十邑人), Eastern Min or Mindong are a subgroup of Han Chinese of either Fuzhou and Mindong regions and the Gutian and Pingnan counties of Fujian province and Matsu Islands in Taiwan. Fuzhou people are a part of the Min Chinese-speaking group that speaks Eastern Min or specifically Fuzhou dialect. There is also a significant overseas Fuzhou population, particularly distributed in Japan, United States (Fuzhou Americans), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the United Kingdom.