The people of Yi ethnic group are the sixth largest ethnic minority in China. About 700,000 Yi people live in Guizhou Province, mainly in Bijie county, Liupanshui and Anshun county.
Miao is an ethnic group in China which is mainly distributed across Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Sichuan provinces, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, as well as Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia.
Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture in Southeast China's Guizhou province has the largest concentration of the people of Dong ethnic group in China with a total Dong population of 1.21 million, 40.8 percent of the total. With a population of more than 320,000 Dong people, Liping county has the largest Dong population of any county in China.
Eighty percent of the Bouyei people's residential areas are located in karst landscapes. The karst geomorphologic landscape is made up of stone forests, rock clusters, high-altitude forests, dissolving mounds, waterfalls and so on.
The origin of the Gelao ethnic group was related to Liao (916-1125). The people of the Gelao ethnic group mainly live in Majiang county, Kaili county, Huangping county, Duyun county and Fuquan county of Guizhou province.
The people of the Tujia ethnic group have long history in China and live mostly in Guizhou province's Yanhe, Yinjiang, Sinan, Jiangkou and Dejiang counties.
