Which province is Dai mainly distributed in?

Yunnan Province

According to the 21 population census of the People's Republic of China, the population of the Dai nationality is 1,261,311, which is distributed in 31 provinces in the mainland, ranking 19th. Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and dehong autonomous prefecture, Gengma, Menglian, Xinping, Yuanjiang, Jinggu, Jinping, Shuangjiang and other counties, and there are also Dai people scattered in Baoshan, Zhenyuan, Lancang, Yuanyang, Maitreya and Maguan.

In addition, Xin 'an Township, Huili County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province is also a Dai settlement. Some of them went south to Vietnam, Myanmar and northern Laos. Because they need warm and humid climate to grow rice, their settlements are located below 2 thousand meters above sea level, mainly distributed in the valley plains of southwest Yunnan (Dayingjiang and Ruili River).

Extended information:

According to the results of the sixth census, the total population of Yunnan Province is 45.966 million, of which 15.337 million are ethnic minorities, accounting for 33.37% of the total population, of which the largest number is Yi, accounting for 1.94% of the total population, and the other ethnic groups with more than 1% are Hani (3.55).

In terms of the absolute number of ethnic minorities, the total population of ethnic minorities in Yunnan ranks second only to that in Guangxi. According to the proportion of ethnic minorities in the total population, it ranks seventh in the provincial administrative regions after Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Guangxi, Guizhou and Ningxia.