Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and they also constitute a subgroup of East Asian Americans, who also constitute a subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans along with their descendants are immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, as well as other regions which are inhabited by large populations of the Chinese diaspora, especially Southeast Asia and some other countries such as Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and France.