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The Han Chinese of United Kingdom

The Han Chinese of United Kingdom, numbering approximately 197,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Han Chinese ethnolinguistic group of southern China's Pearl River Delta who speak Cantonese and share a regional heritage shaped by Lingnan culture, maritime trade, and extensive overseas migration. They mostly adhere to Chinese Folk Religion and Yue Chinese is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Han Chinese

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: East Asian Peoples
Country: United Kingdom
People Cluster: Chinese
Primary Language(s): Yue Chinese (yue)
Primary Religion(s): Chinese Folk Religion
Population: 197,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043796
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Pray for the Han Chinese of United Kingdom

Join others around the world in praying for the lost to be saved, the gospel to advance, the global Church to grow, and for laborers to be sent out and sustained in the harvest.

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Chinese Folk Religion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

75%
%
Chinese Folk Religion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yue Chinese
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Chinese, Yue Speakers

Media Resources in Yue Chinese:

Films:
Title Link
JESUS View Film
Magdalena View Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Yue Chinese:

Bible Name (Translation) Video Audio Text
Revised chinese Union Version (Shen Edition) ✓ ✓
Studium Biblicum Version (Catholic) ✓ ✓
Union Version ✓ ✓
Union Version ✓ ✓

4 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Yue Chinese bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Han Chinese are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Han Chinese:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Han Chinese of United Kingdom

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
readRomans 11:22

Pray that God will transform those who persist in unbelief and, in His everlasting kindness, graft them into His family.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
readJob 1:20-22

Pray that those who mourn will worship God in the midst of their suffering and loss, recognizing He is the source of all good things and that He is worthy of their praise and trust.

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
readPsalm 127:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will build their homes in the Lord and raise their children to know and honor Him.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

Han Chinese, Cantonese Across Countries (ROP3 - 103701) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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25 people groups

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population ▼ Strategic Progress Index Language Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG006808 Han Chinese (Cantonese) China 64,770,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG050587 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Hong Kong 6,245,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG046594 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Malaysia 1,935,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG043259 Han Chinese (Cantonese) United States 1,030,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Atheism
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG046444 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Vietnam 790,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG050584 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Macao 669,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG047426 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Canada 573,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG020725 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Singapore 512,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese PG043796 Han Chinese United Kingdom 197,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG017533 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Peru 118,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese PG024831 Han Chinese Panama 69,500 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Atheism
Han Chinese PG016447 Han Chinese Trinidad and Tobago 44,500 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese PG009111 Han Chinese Laos 36,500 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese PG015468 Han Chinese Reunion 31,500 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG016472 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Venezuela 30,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG016322 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Dominican Republic 12,000 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG042924 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Ecuador 9,700 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Atheism
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG000058 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Belgium 9,500 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Atheism
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG015361 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Mauritius 8,400 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese PG033444 Han Chinese Brunei 7,900 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG024760 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Honduras 7,900 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG016362 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Guyana 3,300 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG015656 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Zimbabwe 1,600 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese PG016401 Han Chinese Curacao 1,100 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Cantonese) PG016380 Han Chinese (Cantonese) Haiti 550 No Longer Unreached Yue Chinese Chinese Folk Religion

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