5 Provinsi Berpenduduk Muslim di China

Islam arrived in China in the 7th century AD. After spreading and developing for 1,400 years, Islam has reached an estimated 20 million to 50 million people in China. Since then, Islam has acquired various names, including "Hui Jiao" (the religion of the Hui people). After New China was founded in 1949, the government issued a statement prohibiting the use of the term "Hui Jiao" for Islam, simply referring to it as Islam. Since then, Islam has been widely used in mainland China. The author explains that among China's 56 ethnic groups, 10 have adopted Islam as their national religion: the Hui, Uighur, Kazakh, Dongxiang, Salar, Tajik, Uzbek, Dungan, Bao'an, and Tatar. Muslims are spread throughout China. The largest concentrations of Muslims in China are in the northwest, such as the provinces of Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai. And also the South and Central, such as Henan and Yunnan provinces.