What's the population of Changde City?

As of December 16th, 222, Changde has a population of 5.238 million.

Changde is a region of scattered and heterogeneous nationalities. In the sixth national census in 21, there were 46 ethnic groups in Changde, including 47, ethnic minorities, accounting for 8% of the total population of Changde, ranking fifth among 14 cities in Hunan Province.

in addition to the Han nationality, there are Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Uygur, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, North Korea, Man, Dong, Yao, Bai, Tujia, Hani, Dai, Wa, Li, She, Gaoshan, Shui, Jingpo, Tu and Wa.

among the permanent residents in the city, there are 556,5 people with college education. The population with high school (including technical secondary school) education is 969,3; The population with junior high school education is 1,824,7; The population with primary school education is 1,516,9 (the above-mentioned people with various education levels include graduates, dropouts and students in various schools).

Changde dialect:

Changde dialect belongs to the sub-dialect of northern dialect-Southwest Mandarin. This is closely related to large-scale immigration in history. According to historical records, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, northern residents have been moving southward. The funeral of Yongjia at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty caused the first large-scale migration of the northern population to the south. A large number of people went south along the Hanshui River basin and crossed the river to reach the Dongting River basin. This great migration continued until the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty once made "the people of Xiang Deng (Xiangyang, Hubei and Nanyang, Henan) and the nobles of the two capitals (Chang 'an and Luoyang) all throw themselves into Jiangxiang, so Jingyi in the south of Jingnan is ten times as original." The migration scale of northern residents is large, the number of people is large, and the region is concentrated, which not only makes it difficult for their language to be assimilated by the local indigenous language, but also gives a great impact to the local indigenous language. This is the historical origin of the kinship between Changde dialect and northern dialect.

In addition, from the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lilang and Langzhou (now Changde) were always included in the administrative region centered on Jingzhou (Jiangling Prefecture), which objectively promoted the exchange, integration and assimilation of Changde dialect and Northern dialect. It can be said that Changde dialect has been infiltrated and washed by the northern dialect since ancient times, and finally merged with it. Although a large number of Jiangxi residents moved to Changde since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they did not have a big impact on Changde dialect because of their small scale and insufficient concentration of region and time, and were eventually assimilated by Changde dialect.

Anxiang dialect can be divided into Xifang dialect and Nanfang dialect, Xifang dialect belongs to Mandarin and occupies a dominant position, and Nanfang dialect belongs to Hunan dialect. This is because in the last hundred years, some immigrants moved to Anxiang, and most of their descendants kept the characteristics of their ancestors' Xiang dialect, and at the same time they could speak Mandarin, thus forming a situation in which Mandarin and Xiang dialect coexist.