1. The population of Chaoshan area accounts for about 12.95% of the population of Guangdong Province. (Because Chaoshan area is the hometown of famous overseas Chinese, if overseas Chinese are included, the proportion will be higher.)

Guangdong Province: 111.69 million people (permanent population in 2017)

The Chaoshan region includes the three cities of Shantou, Chaozhou, and Jieyang, with a total of 14.4687 million people (permanent population in 2017).

Chaozhou City: 2.7745 million people (resident population in 2017)

Shantou City: 5.6082 million people (resident population in 2017)

Jieyang City: 6.086 million people people (permanent population in 2017)

2. The Hakka population accounts for approximately 26.5% of the population of Guangdong Province. Mainly distributed in eastern, northern and western Guangdong areas such as Meizhou, Heyuan, Huizhou, Shenzhen, Shaoguan and Qingyuan.

According to statistics in 2000, the population of Guangdong Province that speaks Hakka is about 22.9 million.

According to the 2000 census, the permanent population of Guangdong Province was 86.42 million.

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Extended information:

Hakka

Hakka is a Han ethnic group whose mother tongue is Hakka. An important part of the local residents in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Taiwan and other provinces. As an ancient Han immigrant group in the south, the Hakka people are one of the ethnic groups with a wide distribution range and far-reaching influence in the world.

It is estimated that there are approximately 80 million Hakka people around the world. About 50 million of them are distributed in more than 180 cities and counties in 19 provinces including Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Hainan. The number of local Hakkas in Guangdong Province has reached about 25 million, accounting for one-third of the local ethnic groups in Guangdong. one.

About 6 million people are distributed in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, and about 15 million people are distributed in more than 80 countries and regions including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the United States, Peru, and Mauritius. Hakka Slang is also an important part of the local language.

Huizhou, Meizhou, Shenzhen, Ganzhou, Longyan, Heyuan, Shaoguan, Hezhou, Sabah, and Hsinchu are important cities where Hakka people live. Meizhou, Huizhou, Ganzhou, and Tingzhou are known as the "Four Hakka States" ".

Hakkas have outstanding performance in various fields, such as Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Hsien Loong, Ye Jianying, Zeng Sheng, Lai Enjue, Cai Mengji, Chen Yinque, Ye Ting, Chen Baozhen, Zhang Bishi, Xue Yue, Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck Shinawatra Na Wa, Li Hejun, Leslie Cheung, Hu Wenhu, Lin Dan, Fan Wenfang, He Wanna, Stephy Tang, Liu Xijun, Cyndi Wang, Chen Yanqiao, etc.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangdong

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chaoshan Area

Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangdong Hakka

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Fifth Census