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tsou youth , pre-1945 tsou 鄒 animism , christianity 6,169 -lrb- 2000 -rrb- tsou , mandarin kanakanavu , saaroa , taiwanese aborigines 150px tsou people
 taiwan
tsou people

the tsou -lrb- -rrb- are an indigenous people of central southern taiwan .
they are spread across three administrative entities of the republic of china -- nantou county , chiayi county and kaohsiung city .
they are sometimes confused with the thao people of sun moon lake .
in the year 2000 the tsou numbered 6,169 .
this was approximately 1.6 % of taiwan 's total indigenous population , making them the seventh-largest tribal group .
