Muong People

The Mường (Mường language: ngài Mõl (Mường Bi), ngài Mường; Vietnamese: người Mường) are an ethnic group native to northern Vietnam. The Mường is the country’s third largest of 53 minority groups, with an estimated population of 1.45 million (according to the 2019 census). The Mường people inhabit a mountainous region of northern Vietnam centered in Hòa Bình Province where they are a majority and some districts of Phú Thọ province and Thanh Hóa Province. They speak a Vietic language related to the Vietnamese language and share an ancient ethnic roots with the Vietnamese (Kinh) people.