The second card from Sumei is Mongolia ethnicity.
The card reads: The Mongols live mostly int he Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, adn in Mongolian autonomous prefectures and counties in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning provinces, etc. the rest reside in Niinxia, Hebei, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. According to the fifth national census in 2000, the Mongol numbered 5,813,947.
"With a total population of 5,813,947, the Mongolians live mainly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Some are distributed in Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu and Qinghai. There are also some scattered in Sichuan, Ningxia, Yunnan and Beijing.
Reputed as 'pearl in the grassland', the Mongolians have kept their nomadic living style for hundreds of years. 'Mongolian' originally was the name of one of the Mongolian tribes. At the beginning of the 13th century, a tribe headed by Genghis Khan unified all the other tribes, giving birth to a new nationality - Mongolian ethnic group.
Most Mongolians believe in Lamaism and they have their own language and alphabet. The Mongolian language is a branch of Altaic language family, and the script was created in the 13th century and improved in the 14th century." Read more here.
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