Eastern Europeans in the United Kingdom

Eastern Europeans in the United Kingdom
Total population
Polish nationals - 900,000
Romanian nationals - 450,000
Lithuanian Nationals - 189,000
Bulgarian nationals - 121,000
Hungarian nationals - 109,000
Albanian nationals - 100,200
Latvian nationals - 100,000
Slovak nationals - 80,000
Czech nationals - 70,000
Russian nationals - 36,000
Ukrainian nationals - 25,000
Moldovan nationals - 18,000
Belarusian - 4,734 (UN estimate 2015)
(ONS estimates 2019, except as noted)
Regions with significant populations
London, Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton, Boston
Languages
British English
Belarusian · Romanian · Russian · Ukrainian
Other Eastern European Languages
Religion
Christianity, Non-religious, others
Related ethnic groups
Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Moldovans, Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Kosovars, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians

Immigrants from Eastern Europe and their descendants have been present in the United Kingdom, in small numbers, for several centuries, with subsequent large migrations in the 21st century. At times, British media also included people with Central European ancestry in this category. This is similar to the definition of Eastern European in the United States, Canada, and Australia: Coming from former Eastern Bloc countries.[citation needed]

There are roughly 2.2 million Eastern European nationals living in the UK, with the largest groups being Polish, Romanian, and Lithuanian. This includes 1,429,000 nationals from EU8 countries, 570,000 nationals from EU2 countries, 29,000 from Cyprus, Malta, and Croatia outside of the EU's original fourteen (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden), and 216,000 from non-EU Europe.