ChinaGenWeb
Situated in east Asia, bordered by North Korea, Russia and Vietnam, China has billion people comprising 56 nationalities including Han (92%), Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean and others. Seventy percent live in the rural areas lending a unique character to each province. Languages and dialects in China include Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, and others. China's religious groups include Tao, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and atheist.
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This page provides national genealogy resources from the Peoples Republic of China and links to its provinces.
Provincial List
Please email the Coordinator if would like to volunteer for a project, would like to coordinate a province, volunteer for the lookup exchange, translate for this page, or any of the pages below.
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[ Tibet-Qinghai ]
| Province | Coordinator | Capital / Population - million (location) |
| Anhui | Email Me! | Hefei / 52 (map) |
| *Beijing | Email Me! | / 11 (map) |
| Fujian | Email Me! | Fuzhou / 31 (map) |
| Gansu | Email Me! | Lanzhou / 24 (map) |
| Guangdong | Email Me! | Guangzhou / 66 (map) |
| Guangxi | Email Me! | Nanning / 44 (map) |
| Guizhou | Email Me! | Guiyang / 35 (map) |
| Hainan | Email Me! | Haikou / 7 (map) |
| Hebei | Email Me! | Shijiazhuang / 65 (map) |
| Heilongjiang | Email Me! | Harbin / 26 (map) |
| Henan | Email Me! | Zhengzhou / 92 (map) |
| Hong Kong | Email Me! | (map) |
| Hubei | Email Me! | Wuhan / 57 (map) |
| Hunan | Email Me! | Changsha / 64 (map) |
| Inner Mongolia | Email Me! | Hohot / 23 (map) |
| Jiangsu | Email Me! | Nanjing / 70 (map) |
| Jiangxi | Email Me! | Nanchang / 41 (map) |
| Jilin | Email Me! | Changchun / 26 (map) |
| Liaoning | Email Me! | Shengyang / 40 (map) |
| Ningxia | Email Me! | Yinchuan / 5.1 (map) |
| Qinghai | Email Me! | Xining / 4.9 (map) |
| Shaanxi | Email Me! | Xi'an / 34 (map) |
| Shandong | Email Me! | Jinan / 88 (map) |
| *Shanghai | Email Me! | / 12 (map) |
| Shanxi | Email Me! | Taiyuan / 31 (map) |
| Sichuan | Email Me! | Chengdu / 110 (map) |
| *Tianjin | Email Me! | / 5.5 (map) |
| Tibet | Dave Lawrence | Lhasa / 2.3 (map) |
| Xinjiang | Email Me! | Urumqi / 16.1 (map) |
| Yunnan | Email Me! | Kunming / 38 (map) |
| Zhejiang | Email Me! | Hangzhou / 43 (map) |
Hosting a Province
Information for hosting one of the above provinces
Queries and Surnames
General queries and surnames not specific to any province
Translation Exchange
People willing to translate small amounts of records from Chinese to English
Lookup Exchange
People willing to lookup resources for genealogists
To contribute information, or take part in the above exchanges, please contact the ChinaGenWeb Coordinator at: [email protected] with ChinaGenWeb in the SUBJECT line of your message.Free Web Space Provided by
Rootsweb Data Cooperative
Page Created September 16 1998, Updated January 20, 2013.
This site is part of WorldGenWeb
The name 'ChinaGenWeb' Copyright © 1997-2015 ChinaGenWeb Project
Copyright © 1998-2015 ChinaGenWeb, David M. Lawrence
Thanks to Carol Whyte of Auckland, New Zealand for creating this page.
