Han Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉人or汉族; traditional Chinese: 漢人 or漢族; pinyin: hànrén or hànzú) are a native ethnic group in China and, as most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the world.

 

Han Chinese account for about 92 percents of the population of the People's Republic of China and about 19 percents of the whole population in the world. There is great cultural, genetic, linguistic and social diversity between the different subgroups of the Han, mainly due to thousands of years of immigration and assimilation of different regional ethnicities and tribes within China. The Han Chinese is a subgroup of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu). Another name that many Chinese peoples use to name themselves is "Descendants of the Dragon" (Chinese: 龙的传人or 龍的傳人). Many Han and other Chinese also refer to themselves as "Descendants of the Yan Di (Yan Emperor) and Huang Di (Yellow Emperor)"