The Han Chinese of Tanzania

The Han Chinese of Tanzania, numbering approximately 106,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a Han Chinese ethnolinguistic group whose native languages belong to the Mandarin branch of Chinese, rooted in northern China and forming the largest linguistic community within the broader Han population They are an Diaspora people, with Chinese as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Chinese people cluster of the East Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Chinese Folk Religion. They primarily speak Chinese, Mandarin.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: East Asian Peoples
Country: Tanzania
People Cluster: Chinese
Primary Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
Primary Religion(s): Chinese Folk Religion
Population: 106,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG014935
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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: Chinese, Mandarin
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Chinese, Mandarin Speakers

Media Resources in Chinese, Mandarin:

Films:
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JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

5 films

Bible Resources in Chinese, Mandarin:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Revised Chinese Union Bible Shen Edition✓✓
Union Version✓✓
Union Version✓✓
Tianjing (Huizuban Shengjing)✓✓✓

4 entries

Or check out the Chinese, Mandarin 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 Tanzania

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
readExodus 2:23-24

As the lost among them labor, groan, and cry out under false religions and sin, pray God will have mercy on them and hear their cries, that He will be their Rescuer from the kingdom of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of light.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
readPsalm 22:27-28

Pray that entire families will turn to the Lord in repentance and faith, and that they will worship Him and declare His righteousness to the nations.

But you said, "I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude."
readGenesis 32:12

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will experience God's presence and protection even in difficult circumstances, knowing that He will make them fruitful.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
readLuke 10:1

Ask God to raise up, send out, and sustain Christians who can go together to share the good news of Jesus with those who need it.

Han Chinese, Mandarin Across Countries (ROP3 - 103686) reported in the following countries:

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88 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Zimbabwe1,600No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinConfucianism
Han ChineseHan ChineseZambia39,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinConfucianism
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Vietnam1,625,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Venezuela27,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseVanuatu700No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinUnaffiliated
Han ChineseHan ChineseUzbekistan1,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)United States2,345,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseUnited Arab Emirates254,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseTuvalu50No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinProtestantism
Han ChineseHan ChineseTurkiye44,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseThailand5,785,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseTanzania106,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseTajikistan90,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Taiwan4,640,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseSwitzerland11,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseSri Lanka2,200No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseSpain170,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseSouth Korea95,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseSouth Africa373,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinConfucianism
Han ChineseHan ChineseSolomon Islands5,200No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Singapore467,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseSeychelles550No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseSaudi Arabia113,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseSaint Lucia175No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseRussian Federation62,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseRomania2,200No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChinesePortugal26,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Peru17,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseParaguay15,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChinesePapua New Guinea30,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChinesePakistan60,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseNorthern Mariana Islands14,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAncestor Worship
Han ChineseHan ChineseNorth Korea184,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAgnosticism
Han ChineseHan ChineseNicaragua15,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseNew Zealand215,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseNew Caledonia300No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinRoman Catholicism
Han ChineseHan ChineseNetherlands30,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseNepal23,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseNauru1,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseMyanmar651,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseMozambique21,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinConfucianism
Han ChineseHan ChineseMicronesia600No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseMexico26,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, YueAtheism
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Mauritius15,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseMartinique550No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Malaysia1,030,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseMadagascar79,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseLesotho5,600No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseKyrgyzstan800No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseKiribati125No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinProtestantism
Han ChineseHan ChineseKenya8,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseKazakhstan6,600No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseJapan734,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseItaly100,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseIndia127,000Engaged yet UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseHungary15,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Hong Kong163,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseGuam3,100No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinUnaffiliated
Han ChineseHan ChineseGreece28,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseGermany51,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseFrance172,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseFiji6,300No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinProtestantism
Han ChineseHan ChineseEgypt66,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Ecuador10,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseDominica150No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseDenmark13,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinSecularism
Han ChineseHan ChineseCzech Republic10,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseCuba40,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseCosta Rica12,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseColombia11,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseChristmas Island1,700No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)China901,450,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAgnosticism
Han ChineseHan ChineseChile13,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Canada1,060,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseCambodia523,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseBrazil280,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseBotswana3,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseBolivia7,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseBelize13,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han Chinese (Mandarin)Han Chinese (Mandarin)Belgium21,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism
Han ChineseHan ChineseBarbados150No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseBangladesh3,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseBahamas325No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseAustria14,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseAustralia670,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseArgentina53,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinChinese Folk Religion
Han ChineseHan ChineseAngola3,500No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinConfucianism
Han ChineseHan ChineseAlgeria56,000No Longer UnreachedChinese, MandarinAtheism

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