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Lao Cai is now a province in Northwest Vietnam. also, about 5 kilometers north of Lao Cai, there is a town still named “Lao Phan” which means “where the Lao passed through.” Some Tai people still live there” (G.E. Hall, A History of SEA (1981)) [citation needed]
For the purposes of the 1995 census, the government of Laos recognized 149 ethnic groups within 47 main ethnicities. [ 1 ] whereas the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) recently revised the list to include 49 ethnicities consisting of over 160 ethnic groups.
Below is a list of Lao people (persons from Laos, or of Lao descent). Resident Laotians. Kouprasith Abhay; Alexandra Bounxouei; Anouvong; Boua; Bounkhong; Bouasone ...
Laos, [c] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), [d] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [ 12 ]
People dressed in their finest traditional clothing carry offerings which are left at the foot of the That Luang stupa. The Supreme Patriarch of Lao Buddhism addresses the crowd, and an outdoor ceremony is held in the late morning. December 2: Lao National Day: ວັນຊາດ: Celebrates the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic ...
The name Lao is used almost exclusively by the majority population of Laos, the Lao people, and two of the three other members of the Lao-Phutai subfamily of Southwestern Tai: Isan people (occasionally), Nyaw people and Phu Thai speakers. The name Rau comes from Zhuang raeu z and means 'we, us'.
There are about over 200,000 ethnic Lao in America. Approximately 8,000 to 11,000 Americans are of mixed Lao and other descent. Ethnic Lao people may identify as both Lao American and Laotian American (see also Hmong American). [6]
The Khmu were the indigenous inhabitants of northern Laos. It is generally believed the Khmu once inhabited a much larger area. After the influx of Thai/Lao peoples into the lowlands of Southeast Asia, the Khmu were forced to higher ground (), above the rice-growing lowland Lao and below the Hmong/Mien groups that inhabit the highest regions, where they practiced swidden agriculture. [5]