Qingtianese diaspora
青田华侨 Chin1-dia2-wu6-jiuao2 | |
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Group photo of Qingtianese community in Poland, 1932 | |
| Total population | |
| c. 381,000 worldwide | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Spain | c. 125,000 |
| Italy | c. 103,000 |
| Portugal | c. 12,000 |
| Brazil | c. 11,000 |
| France | c. 9000 |
| Austria | c. 7000 |
| Germany | c. 5000 |
| Netherlands | c. 4000 |
| Belgium | c. 3000 |
| Serbia | c. 3000 |
| Greece | c. 2000 |
| Hungary | c. 2000 |
| Languages | |
| Qingtian dialect
Wenzhou dialect Mandarin Spanish Italian French | |
| Religion | |
| Chinese Buddhism; Confucianism; Chinese folk religion Roman Catholicism; Protestantism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Wenzhounese Wu Chinese Overseas Chinese | |
The Qingtianese diaspora refers to the overseas Chinese and their descendants that are originated from Qingtian county, Zhejiang province, China.
Qingtian is renowned in China for its centuries-old diasporan communities, in which out of the county's 568,800 original inhabitants, as many as 381,000 of them are currently residing in 146 countries across the world, forming the bulk of Chinese populations in many countries, especially in European countries such as Spain where they constitute over 80% of the entire Chinese community.