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Thailand: A Yao Mien woman (left) and a Lahu woman (right), both of northern Thailand in traditional dress. Photo by Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), c. 1900. The Yao nationality (its great majority branch is also known as Mien; Pinyin: Yáo zú; Vietnamese: người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China. They form one of the 55 ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where they reside in the mountainous terrain of the southwest and south.
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