Tsengian people

Tsengian people (曾國人) or Zengguoren are citizens and nationals of the Tseng Republic. As of 2024, the current Tsengian population is around 35-36 million, with 30 million of them living in Tseng.

About 92% of Tsengian people are Han Tsengian. 3.2% of the population is from indigenous tribes, while 4.7% are from other countries, like Taiwan, China, and Japan.

Han Tsengian
The majority of Han Tsengians are the descendants of Chinese peoples from, , and the areas who sailed to Tseng in the Five Kingdoms era, is the largest ethnic group in Tseng. They comprise over 92% of the Tsengian population, making Tseng a monoethnic country. They generally speak Tsengian Mandarin, some speak Hokkien, Hakka, French or English. There are also sizable Hoklo and Hakka populations in Tseng.

Hoklo
Most Hoklo peoples in Tseng trace their origins to, a city in , or the island of , where they migrated northeast towards Tseng. Some Hoklos migrated to Tseng after the and up until the 1980s and 1990s due to dictatorships in both China and Taiwan. Hoklo Tsengian speak Tsengian Hokkien as their native language, but almost all of them have assimilated and speak Mandarin, Hakka, or English.

Hakka
Hakkas have migrated to Tseng since the 18th centuries despite colonialism and harsh treatment in Tseng. They speak Hakka, but like Hoklos, they have been assimilated and speak other languages instead.

Indigenous peoples
The Tsengian indigenous peoples consist of 3.2% of the population. The largest indigenous group is the Fu'lang people. They speak Austronesian languages, and are more related to the people of Southeast Asia or Oceania than Han Tsengians. Some even have Japanese, Korean, or northern Chinese (eg. Manchu, Mongolian) ancestry due to some sailors from those regions finding Tseng. Most indigenous peoples speak the dominant languages of Mandarin, Hokkien, and/or Hakka, but there's also a sizable amount of indigenous Tsengians speaking indigenous languages.

Other minor groups
There are 4.7% of Tsengians that are of other ethnic background. Taiwanese are the largest minor ethnic group in Tseng, comprising 32% of the minority population, followed by Japanese, Korean, mainland Chinese, Hongkongers, Filipinos, and Malaysians.

Europeans were a dominant group pre-1940s. The native population was forced to speak their language and adopt their customs. Now, they only make up 0.9% of the population. Common countries they emigrate from include the UK, France, Spain, and Finland.