Hungarians

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Hungarians
Magyarok
Total population
c. 14.5 million
Regions with significant populations
Hungary Hungary 9,632,744[1] Carpathian Basin 11,425,000 (2022)
Other countries
Europe
 Romania1,002,151[2]
 Slovakia456,154[3]
 Germany296,000[4]
 Serbia184.442[5]
 France200,000–250,000[6][7]
 United Kingdom200,000–220,000[8]
 Ukraine156,566[9]
 Austria73,411[10]
 Russia55,500[11]
  Switzerland27,000[10]
 Netherlands26,172[12]
 Czech Republic20,000[13]
 Belgium15,000[13]
 Croatia14,048[14]
 Sweden13,000[10]
 Slovenia10,500[15]
 Spain10,000[10]
 Ireland9,000[10]
 Norway8,316[16]
 Denmark6,000[10]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina4,000[17]
 Finland3,000[10]
 Greece2,000[10]
 Luxembourg2,000[10]
 Poland1,728[18]
 Portugal1,230[19]
North America
 United States1,437,694[10]
 Canada348,085[20]
 Mexico3,500[10]
South America
 Brazil80,000[21]
 Chile50,000[22]
 Argentina40,000–50,000[23]
 Venezuela4,000[13]
 Uruguay3,000[13]
Rest of the world
 Israel200,000[10]
 Australia69,167[24]
 New Zealand7,000[13]
 Turkey6,800[10]
 South Africa4,000[13]
 Jordan1,000[10]
Languages
Hungarian
Religion
Majority: Christianity (mostly Roman Catholicism),[25] also Protestantism (Calvinism)
Minority: Protestantism (Unitarianism and Lutheranism), Eastern Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Judaism, irreligious
PersonMagyar
PeopleMagyarok
LanguageMagyar nyelv,
Magyar jelnyelv
CountryMagyarország

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ˈmæɡjɑːrz/ MAG-yarz;[26] Hungarian: magyarok [ˈmɒɟɒrok]), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic language family, alongside, most notably, Finnish and Estonian.

There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary.[1] About 2 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. In addition, significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina, and therefore constitute the Hungarian diaspora (Hungarian: magyar diaszpóra).

Furthermore, Hungarians can be divided into several subgroups according to local linguistic and cultural characteristics; subgroups with distinct identities include the Székelys (in eastern Transylvania as well as a few in Suceava County, Bukovina), the Csángós (in Western Moldavia), the Palóc, and the Matyó.

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  2. ^ Széchely, István (3 January 2023). "Mintha városok ürültek volna ki" [As if cities had been emptied]. Székelyhon (in Hungarian). Retrieved 24 January 2023.
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  18. ^ Ludność. Stan i struktura demograficzno-społeczna. Narodowy Spis Ludności i Mieszkań 2011 (National Census of Population and Housing 2011). GUS. 2013. p. 264.
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  20. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (25 October 2017). "Ethnic Origin (279), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3), Generation Status (4), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census – 25% Sample Data". www12.statcan.gc.ca.
  21. ^ "Hungarians in Brazil". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007.
  22. ^ "Los obreros húngaros emigrados en América Latina entre las dos guerras mundiales. Ilona Varga" (PDF). www.ikl.org.pl. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2016.
  23. ^ "Thursday Top Ten: Top Ten Countries With The Largest Hungarian Diaspora In The World". 1 December 2016. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  24. ^ Hungary, About (19 November 2019). "Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's address at the 9th meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council". Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's address at the 9th meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council.
  25. ^ Discrimination in the EU in 2012 (PDF). Special Eurobarometer (Report). 383. European Commission. November 2012. p. 233. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2013. The question asked was "Do you consider yourself to be...?" With a card showing: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Other Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, and Non-believer/Agnostic. Space was given for Other (SPONTANEOUS) and DK. Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu did not reach the 1% threshold.
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