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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Yunnan Mongol of China

The Yunnan Mongol of China, numbering approximately 8,900 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of China. They are an Indigenous people, in the Mongolian people cluster of the East Asian Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion - Daoism. They primarily speak Katso.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Mongol, Yunnan

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
Country: China
People Cluster: Mongolian
Primary Language(s): Katso (kaf)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion - Daoism
Population: 8,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
People Group ID: PG007315
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion - Daoism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Katso
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

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Next steps for the Yunnan Mongol

The Yunnan Mongol are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Begin signifcant prayer and fasting for this group
Send cross-cultural teams to discover and research this people group
Begin gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group

Next steps for the Yunnan Mongol

The Yunnan Mongol are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the Yunnan Mongol

The Yunnan Mongol 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.

Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Yunnan Mongol of China

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
read1 John 4:10

Pray for those without the hope of Christ to understand the depth of God's love and the sacrifice He made for them.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
readMatthew 11:28-29

Please pray for them to lift their eyes to Jesus and find rest for their souls, lasting peace, and hope in Him.

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope.
readPsalm 130:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will wait on the Lord and have patience and trust, knowing His ways and His timing are always perfect.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

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