Swedish emigrants and their descendants
Countries with significant Swedish population and descendants. Sweden
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The Emigrants by S. V. Helander (1839–1901): a young Swedish farmer says farewell of friends and relatives before emigrating
The American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
The Gustav Adolf Church in Liverpool, the oldest surviving Swedish church in the United Kingdom
The Swedish diaspora consists of emigrants and their descendants, especially those that maintain some of the customs of their Swedish culture .[ 1] Notable Swedish communities exist in the United States , Argentina ,[ 2] Australia , Canada , New Zealand , Brazil , and the United Kingdom as well as others.
^ "Diaspora" . Merriam Webster . Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011 . the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland ... people settled far from their ancestral homelands.
^ "Suecia en Argentina" . 12 June 2011. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2017 .