The Zhuang (in the Zhuang language: Bouчcueŋь/Bouxcuengh; ) are an ethnic group of people who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. Their population, estimated at 18 million people, puts them second only to the Han Chinese and makes the Zhuang the largest minority in China.

Zhuang (Chinese: ; Pinyin: Zhuāng; Wade-Giles: Chuang) is a Chinese surname. It ranked 73rd by population in a 1990 study http://zhongwen.com/xingshi.htm of 174, 900 samples but dropped out of the top 100 in a 2006 study, which includes 296 million sampleshttp://culture.163.com/06/0110/09/273JO40F00280003.html.

a branch of the Tai languages