Overseas Taiwanese

Overseas Taiwanese

Total population
1,944,178
Regions with significant populations
United States	1,002,000[1]
Indonesia	632,000[2]
China	404,000[3]
Malaysia	34,900[1]
Japan	303,000[1]
Thailand	290,200[1]
Australia	190,020[4]
Canada	173,000[5]
Vietnam	99,350[1]
Philippines	99,000[citation needed]
United Kingdom	96,000[6]
Brazil	90,000[1]
France	89,500[1]
New Zealand	89,000[1]
Singapore	81,000[7]
South Africa	75,000[1]
Costa Rica	69,000[1]
Argentina	68,000[1]
Brunei	63,000[1]
Germany	45,000[1]
South Korea	31,000[citation needed]
Others	78,000[citation needed]
Languages
Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Formosan languages
Related ethnic groups
Taiwanese

Overseas Taiwanese (Chinese: 海外臺灣人), also called "people of Taiwanese descent" (Chinese: 臺裔; pinyin: Táiyì), are people of Taiwanese birth or ancestry who live or were born outside of Taiwan. Overseas Taiwanese may or may not be Taiwanese citizens. Taiwanese citizens must return to the country to legally vote in elections, as there are no absentee ballots.^[8]

There are 230,382 to 919,000 people of Taiwanese descent in the United States. They are concentrated in the states of California, New York, and Texas.^[9][10] There are over 91,000 Taiwanese people in Canada, mainly living in the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario.^[11][12]

• Taishang, Taiwanese businessmen in mainland China
• Taiwanese people
• Han Taiwanese, descendants of Han Chinese people
• Austronesian people, descendants of Taiwanese aborigines in the Pacific and Southeast Asia