Ningbonese people

The Ningbonese or Ningbo people are the people of Ningbo, China, whether resident or abroad. The Ningbonese are a subgroup of the Wu Han ethnicity. Many famous Chinese people have come from Ningbo and many more have Ningbo as their ancestral home. A large percentage of Shanghainese people have ancestry in Ningbo.

Ningbonese
寧波人

Traditional attire of Ningbo women, 1898.
Total population
Approximately 6-8 million
Regions with significant populations
Ningbo, Zhejiang	5,681,000
Hong Kong	As part of Mainlander population
Republic of China (on Taiwan)	As part of Mainlander population
United States	As part of Chinese American population
Australia	As part of Chinese Australian population
Languages
Ningbo dialect (in Ningbo) Traditionally Ningbo dialect; Now Shanghai dialect and Mandarin Chinese (those of Ningbo descent in Shanghai) also Standard Cantonese (those living in Hong Kong), Taiwanese Hokkien (among mainlanders of Ningbo origin living in Taiwan, used as a secondary lingua franca) as well as English (amongst the diaspora Ningbonese subgroup of Chinese Americans and Chinese Australians)
Religion
Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Chinese folk religion Small Christian minorities.
Related ethnic groups
Jiangnanese, Shanghainese people, other Han Chinese

Because Ningbo was formerly the capital of Ming Prefecture, its people are sometimes also known in Chinese as the Mingzhou.[1] People from Zhoushan are also considered to be Ningbonese,[2] since Zhoushan was formerly part of Mingzhou as well.

The scene of Ningbo people celebrating the foundation of Republic of China, 1912.

Students of Ningbo Riverside Girls Academy on the playground, circa 1930s.