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 | | The Hmong, also known as Miao (Chinese: 苗: Miáo; Vietnamese: Mèo or Hmông; Thai:แม้ว (Maew) or ม้ง (Mong)), are an Asian ethnicgroup speaking the Hmong language, whose homeland is in the mountainousregions of southern China (especially Guizhou) that cross into northern Southeast Asia (northern Vietnamand Laos). |
 | | Two terms, Miao and Hmong (or H'mong in Vietnam), are both currently used to refer to one of the aboriginal peoples of China.They live mainly in southern China, in the provinces of Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and Hubei.According to the 1989 census, their number in China was estimated to be about 7 million. |
 | | In 1960, many Hmong in Laos were recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as part of a plan more to fight for and defend Laos against themassive and disciplined North Vietnamese Army (NVA) than the Communist Pathet Lao movement in that country. |
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