In 2022, 92% of the total Japanese population lived in cities.
[243] The capital city, Tokyo, has a population of 13.9 million (2022).
[244] It is part of the
Greater Tokyo Area, the
biggest metropolitan area in the world with 38,140,000 people (2016).
[245] Japan is an ethnically and culturally
homogeneous society,
[246] with the
Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population.
[247] Minority ethnic groups in the country include the indigenous
Ainu and
Ryukyuan people.
[248] Zainichi Koreans,
[249] Chinese,
[250] Filipinos,
[251] Brazilians mostly
of Japanese descent,
[252] and Peruvians mostly
of Japanese descent are also among Japan's small minority groups.
[253] Burakumin make up a social minority group.
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For a more comprehensive list, see
List of ethnic groups in China.
The People's Republic of China (PRC) officially recognizes 56 distinct ethnic groups, the largest of which are
Han, who constitute 91.51% of the total population in 2010. Ethnic minorities constitute 8.49% or 113.8 million of China's population in 2010. During the past decades ethnic minorities have experienced higher growth rates than the majority
Han population, because they are not under the one-child policy. Their proportion of the population in China has grown from 6.1% in 1953, to 8.04% in 1990, 8.41% in 2000, and 8.49% in 2010. Large ethnic minorities (data according to the 2000 census) include the
Zhuang (16 million, 1.28%),
Manchu (10 million, 0.84%),
Uyghur (9 million, 0.78%),
Hui (9 million, 0.71%),
Miao (8 million, 0.71%),
Yi (7 million, 0.61%),
Tujia (5.75 million, 0.63%),
Mongols (5 million, 0.46%),
Tibetan (5 million, 0.43%),
Buyei (3 million, 0.23%), and
Korean (2 million, 0.15%). Over 126,000 Westerners from
Canada, the
US and
Europe are living in mainland China.
[49] Almost 1% of people living in
Hong Kong are
Westerners.[
citation needed]