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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Rawang of United States

The Rawang of United States, numbering approximately 750 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Kachin state in northern Myanmar They are an Diaspora people, with Rawang as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Miri-Kachin people cluster of the Himalayan Peoples. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Rawang is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Rawang Kachin

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Himalayan Peoples
Country: United States
People Cluster: Miri-Kachin
Primary Language(s): Rawang (raw)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 750
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG050380

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

60%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Rawang
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Rawang Speakers

Media Resources in Rawang:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Rawang:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2009 Rawang Bible Committee✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Rawang bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Rawang 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 Rawang:
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 Rawang of United States

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.
readPsalm 67:4

Pray that those who are lost in darkness and confusion will come to understand God's ways, submit to His righteous rule, and experience the joy of His salvation.

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.
readIsaiah 55:6

Pray that the lost will seek the Lord while He may be found and call upon Him while He is near, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
readPhilippians 3:20-21

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember their citizenship is in heaven.

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.

Rawang Across Countries (ROP3 - 108326) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
RawangPG009509RawangMyanmar73,500No Longer UnreachedRawangProtestantism
RawangPG023113RawangChina700No Longer UnreachedRawangProtestantism
RawangPG050380RawangUnited States750No Longer UnreachedRawangProtestantism

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