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'''Han Chinese''' ({{zh-stp|s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén}}) are an [[ethnic group]] indigenous to [[China]] and the largest single [[human]] [[ethnic group]] in the [[Earth|world]].

The Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the [[population]] of the [[mainland China]] and about 19% of the entire [[World population|global human population]]. There are substantial genetic, linguistic, cultural and social diversity between its [[Subgroups of the Han ethnicity|various subgroups]], mainly due to thousands of years of regionalized assimilation of various ethnic groups and tribes in China. Han Chinese is a subset of the [[Chinese nation]] (''[[Zhonghua minzu]]''). An alternate name that many [[Chinese people]]s use to refer to themselves is the "'''[[Chinese dragon|Descendants of the [[Chinese dragon|Dragon]].'''" Han Chinese are traditionally symbolized by the color [[red]].

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