Ethnicity
Malaysia's population comprises many ethnic groups. People of Austronesian origin make a slim majority of the population, and are known as the Bumiputras. Large Chinese and Indian minorities also exist. Malays, as bumiputra, see Malaysia as their land, and since race riots in 1969 bumiputra have been especially privileged in Malaysia. However, since then racial stability has prevailed, if not full harmony. Mixed marriages are on the rise. The twenty largest ethnolinguistic groups in Malaysia are as follows:
| Group | Total |
| Malay, Peninsular | 9,041,091 |
| Han Chinese, Hokkien | 1,848,211 |
| Tamil | 1,743,922 |
| Han Chinese, Hakka | 1,679,027 |
| Han Chinese, Cantonese | 1,355,541 |
| Banjar Malay | 1,237,615 |
| Han Chinese, Teochew | 974,573 |
| Han Chinese, Mandarin | 958,467 |
| Minangkabau | 874,536 |
| Indonesian | 772,558 |
| Iban | 666,034 |
| Filipino | 442,933 |
| Han Chinese, Hainanese | 380,781 |
| Han Chinese, Min Bei | 373,337 |
| Malay, East Malaysia | 271,979 |
| Han Chinese, Min Dong | 249,413 |
| Straits Chinese | 236,918 |
| Nepalese | 217,587 |
| Tausug | 201,797 |
| Dusun, Central | 191,146 |
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