Qingtianese diaspora

Qingtianese diaspora

青田华侨
Group photo of Qingtianese community in Poland, 1932
Total population
~381,000
Regions with significant populations
Spain: Madrid, Barcelona； Italy: Milan, Rome, Prato； Germany: Berlin, Munich, Hamburg;  France: Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseille;  Austria: Vienna； Portugal: Lisbon, Porto； Greece: Athens, Thessaloniki； CZ: Prague
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 states such as Spain where they constitute over 80% of the entire Chinese community.