Arab New Zealanders

Arab New Zealanders
النيوزيلنديون العرب
Total population
12,000[1][2][failed verification]
Regions with significant populations
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch
Languages
Arabic, New Zealand English
Religion
75.7% Muslims
9.7% Christianity
7.8% No religion[3]
Related ethnic groups
Arabs, Arab diaspora, Arab Australians, Arab Americans, Arab Argentines, Arab Brazilians, Arab Canadians, Arab Mexicans, British Arabs, Arabs in Germany

Arab New Zealanders refers to people from Arab countries, particularly Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Jordan and also small groups from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Yemen and Sudan,[citation needed] who emigrated from their native nations and currently reside in New Zealand. The term also refers to descendants of diasporic Arabians such as descendants of Arab merchants to Asian nations, whose ancestral origins may be traced to merchants hailing from the Southern Arabian nations such as Yemen and Oman and the Arab nations of the Persian gulf region. Most Arab New Zealanders are of Lebanese and Iraqi descent because they were the first Arabs to arrive in New Zealand.[improper synthesis?] Therefore, an Arab New Zealander is a New Zealander of Arab cultural and linguistic heritage or identity whose ancestry traces back to any of various waves of immigrants originating from one or more of the twenty countries comprised by the Arab world.

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  3. ^ "2018 Census ethnic group summaries | Stats NZ". www.stats.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 December 2022.