Total population | |
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over 50,000 descendants (2% of total population)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Montevideo, Chuy | |
Languages | |
Uruguayan Spanish, Arabic | |
Religion | |
Christians (majority) and Islam (minority) |
Arab Uruguayans (Arabic: عرب أوروغواي) are residents or citizens of Uruguay of Arab ethnicity, whose ancestry predominantly traces back to any of various waves of immigrants from the Arab world, especially Lebanon and Syria.