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China's Different Languages

China is pretty large, really large, in fact. It's also filled with a lot of people of different ethnicities. This map gives you a sense of all those different ethnicities. It shows all of the different dialects spoken in China broken down by region. We expected to see Tibetan and Cantonese on this list, but we didn't actually know there were that many people speaking the Mongolian dialect and living within China.

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There are also a dozen or so different dialects spoken close to the border with Vietnam, in addition to the Uyger dialect in western China. The latter of which has been in the news lately.