Galicians

Not to be confused with the people of the Eastern European region of Galicia.

Galicians
Galegos
Galician bagpipers
Total population
c. 3.2 million[1]
Regions with significant populations
           Spain 2,752,676[2][3]
           Galicia 2,397,6132,397,613[2][3]
          Province of A Coruña991,588[2][3]
          Province of Pontevedra833,205[2][3]
          Province of Lugo300,419[2][3]
          Province of Ourense272,401[2][3]
 Spain (excluding Galicia)355,063[2][3]
 Argentina147,062[4]
 Venezuela38,440–46,882[4][5]
 Brazil38,554[4]
 Uruguay35,369[4]
 Cuba31,077[4]
  Switzerland30,737[4]
 France16,075[4]
 United States14,172[4]
 Germany13,305[4]
 United Kingdom10,755[4]
 Mexico9,895[4]
Galicians inscribed in the electoral census and living abroad combined (2013)414,650[4]
Languages
Galician, Spanish
Religion
Roman Catholicism[6]
Related ethnic groups
Portuguese, Asturians, Leonese people, other Spaniards

Galicians (Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group[7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people[8] and have their historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.[9] Two Romance languages are widely spoken and official in Galicia: the native Galician and Spanish.[10]

  1. ^ Sum of the inhabitants of Spain born in Galicia (c. 2.8 million), plus Spaniards living abroad and inscribed in the electoral census (CERA) as electors in one of the four Galician constituencies.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Not including Galicians born outside Galicia
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Instituto Nacional de Estadística". Ine.es. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "INE – CensoElectoral". Ine.es. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  5. ^ Internacional, La Región (30 July 2015). "Miranda visita Venezuela para conocer las preocupaciones de la diáspora gallega". La Región Internacional. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Interactivo: Creencias y prácticas religiosas en España". Lavanguardia.com. 2 April 2015. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  7. ^ Minahan, James (2000). One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 179, 776. ISBN 0-313-30984-1. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2019. other Celtic peoples ... Galicians ...; ... Romance (Latin) nations ... Galicians
  8. ^ Bycroft, C.; Fernandez-Rozadilla, C.; Ruiz-Ponte, C.; Quintela, I.; Donnelly, P.; Myers, S.; Myers, Simon (2019). "Patterns of genetic differentiation and the footprints of historical migrations in the Iberian Peninsula". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 551. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10..551B. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08272-w. PMC 6358624. PMID 30710075.
  9. ^ Recalde, Montserrat (1997). La vitalidad etnolingüística gallega. València: Centro de Estudios sobre Comunicación Interlingüistíca e Intercultural. ISBN 978-84-370-2895-8.
  10. ^ "Persoas segundo a lingua na que falan habitualmente. Ano 2003". Ige.eu. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.