and Taiwan, Min Nan also make up the biggest Chinese dialect group among the overseas Chinese populations in Southeast Asia such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines. Xiang-speaking groups Total Native Han Speakers: 36,015,000 Xiang speakers mostly live in Hunan province, and so are often called Hunanese people. Xiang-speaking people are also found in the adjacent provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi and Sichuan. The Xiangnan Tuhua users are the minority ethnic subgroup in this region. Hakka-speaking groups Total Native Han Speakers: 34,000,000 The Hakka people speaks Hakka and are predominant in parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Taiwan. They are one of the largest groups found among the Ethnic Han in Southeast Asia. Gan Chinese-speaking groups Total Native Han Speakers: 20,580,000 The origin of Gan-speaking peoples in China are from Jiangxi province in China. Gan-speaking populations are also found in Fujian, southern Anhui and Hubei provinces, and linguistic enclaves are found in Taiwan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and non-Gan speaking Jiangxi. Smaller groups Other minor subgroups include speakers of the Tanka people, Gaoshan Han, Tunpu, Caijia, Peranakans, Chuanqing, Kwongsai people, Waxiang people and Taz people. Han subgroups by subculture The culture of the Han Chinese is complex and diverse. The vast geographic scale of China has led the Han to culturally separate themselves into northern and southern divisions. North Zhongyuan culture (中原) Beijing culture (燕京) Shandong culture (魯/鲁) Jin culture (晉/晋) Dongbei culture (東北/东北) South Hubei culture (楚) Lingnan culture (粵/粤) Hakka culture (客) Teochew culture (潮) Hokkien culture (閩南/闽南) Xinghua culture (興化) Fuzhou Culture (闽都/闽东) Jiangxi culture (贛) Huizhou culture (徽) Hunanese culture (湘) Sichuanese culture (蜀) Wuyue culture (吳/吴) Wenzhou culture (瓯) Haipai culture (海) Hong Kong culture (港) Macanese culture (澳) Han subgroups by region of China Mainland China The Han people originated in Mainland China. Each Han subgroup is generally associated with a particular region in China; the Cantonese originated in Liangguang, the Putian in Puxian, the Foochow in Fuzhou, the Hoklo in Southern Fujian, the Chaoshan/Teochew in eastern Guangdong, the Hakka in eastern/central Guangdong and western Fujian, and the Shanghainese in Shanghai. Hong Kong In Hong Kong, a majority of the population are Cantonese. According to the CIA World Factbook, 89% of Hong Kongers speak the Cantonese language. Other Han Chinese peoples present in Hong Kong include the Hakka, Teochew, Hoklo and Shanghainese besides ethnic minorities like the Tankas. Scholars like James