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Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 per cent of Chinese speakers and a huge area stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast.
zh-CN is usually understood to be Mandarin written in simplified characters. The vocabulary and to some extend grammar is typical of the mainland China region. zh-TW is usually understood to be Mandarin written in traditional characters. The vocabulary and to some extend grammar is typical of the mainland Taiwan region. zh-HK is usually understood to be in traditional characters and the language is usually a school-taught form of stylized Mandarin. The vocabular and grammar is typical of the Hong Kong region; in addition, some of the grammar can be considered to have Cantonese influences.