Sze Yap people in Hong Kong
台山人 Hoi San Ngin | |
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| Total population | |
| Estimated: 2.0–2.5 million in Hong Kong | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Kowloon and Hong Kong Island | |
| Languages | |
| Taishanese, Cantonese and English | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Traditional Chinese religion Minority Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Han Chinese |
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| Chinese | 四邑香港人 | ||||||||||||||
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Sze Yap Cantonese represents the second largest Han group in Hong Kong after the group of people (Punti) originating from the Guangzhou-Sam Yap region. The Sze Yap Cantonese comes from a region in Guangdong in China called Sze Yap (四邑), now called Ng Yap, which consists of the counties of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping, Heshan and Jiangmen. The Sze Yap Cantonese group have contributed much to what makes Hong Kong a success. Hong Kong people of Sze Yap origin represented about 18.3% of Hong Kong's total population in 1961, and 17.4% in 1971; today this population still increases as more immigrants from the Taishanese-speaking areas of Guangdong in mainland China continue to immigrate to Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong census first began counting Sze Yap as an ancestral origin in 1961, and found that it was around 18.34% of the population, compared to 48.62% for the Guangzhou and Macau region. This census found that the district with the highest concentration of Sze Yap people was Sham Shui Po.