East Asian ethnic group
Ethnic group
Koreans c. 82 million[ 1]
South Korea c. 49,110,000 (2019) [ a] [ 2] North Korea 25,955,138[ b] [ 3]
Diaspora as of 2021[update] c. 7.3 million[ 4] United States 2,633,777 [ 4] China 2,109,727 [ c] [ 5] Japan 818,865 [ d] [ 4] Canada 237,364 [ 4] Uzbekistan 175,865 [ e] [ 4] Russia 168,526 [ f] [ 4] Australia 158,103 [ 4] Vietnam 156,330 [ 4] Kazakhstan 109,495 [ g] [ 4] Germany 47,428 [ 4] United Kingdom 36,690 [ 4] Brazil 36,540 [ 4] New Zealand 33,812 [ 4] Philippines 33,032 [ 4] France 25,417 [ 4] Argentina 22,847 [ 4] Singapore 20,983 [ 4] Thailand 18,130 [ 4] Kyrgyzstan 18,106 [ 4] Indonesia 17,297 [ 4] Malaysia 13,667 [ 4] Ukraine 13,524 [ h] [ 4] Sweden 13,055[ 4] Mexico 11,107 [ 4] India 10,674 [ 4] Cambodia 10,608 [ 4] Netherlands 9,473 [ 4] Denmark 8,694 [ 4] Norway 7,744 [ 4] Taiwan 5,132 [ 6] [ 7] Brunei 3,771 [ 4] Korean ,[ 8] Jeju and Korean Sign Language minoritiesPredominantly : Irreligious
Significant : Korean shamanic , Christian , and Buddhist Jejuans
Koreans [ i] are an East Asian ethnic group native to Korea .[ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] The majority of Koreans live in the two Korean nation states of North and South Korea , which are collectively referred to as Korea. As of 2021, an estimated 7.3 million ethnic Koreans resided outside of Korea .[ 4] Koreans are also an officially recognised ethnic minority in other several Continental and East Asian countries, including China , Japan , Kazakhstan , Russia , and Uzbekistan . Outside of Continental and East Asia, sizeable Korean communities have formed in Germany, the United Kingdom , France , the United States , Canada , Australia , and New Zealand .
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