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The population of Koreans in China include millions of descendants of Korean immigrants with citizenship of the People’s Republic of China as well as smaller groups of South and North Korean expatriates with a total of roughly 2.3 million people as of 2009 making it the largest ethnic Korean population living outside the Korean Peninsula.Chaoxianzu (Chinese: 朝鲜族) or Joseonjok (Hangul: 조선족) form one of the 56 ethnicities officially recognized by the Chinese government.