Koreans

Koreans
Total population
c. 82 million[1]
Regions with significant populations
South Korea       c. 49,110,000 (2019)[a][2]
North Korea       25,955,138[b][3]
Diaspora as of 2021
c. 7.3 million[4]
 United States2,633,777[4]
 China2,109,727[c][5]
 Japan818,865[d][4]
 Canada237,364[4]
 Uzbekistan175,865[e][4]
 Russia168,526[f][4]
 Australia158,103[4]
 Vietnam156,330[4]
 Kazakhstan109,495[g][4]
 Germany47,428[4]
 United Kingdom36,690[4]
 Brazil36,540[4]
 New Zealand33,812[4]
 Philippines33,032[4]
 France25,417[4]
 Argentina22,847[4]
 Singapore20,983[4]
 Thailand18,130[4]
 Kyrgyzstan18,106[4]
 Indonesia17,297[4]
 Malaysia13,667[4]
 Ukraine13,524[h][4]
 Sweden13,055[4]
 Mexico11,107[4]
 India10,674[4]
 Cambodia10,608[4]
 Netherlands9,473[4]
 Denmark8,694[4]
 Norway7,744[4]
 Taiwan5,132[6][7]
 Brunei3,771[4]
Languages
Korean,[8]
Jeju and Korean Sign Language minorities
Religion
Predominantly : Irreligious
Significant : Korean shamanic, Christian, and Buddhist
Related ethnic groups
Jejuans
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Koreans[i] are an East Asian ethnic group and nation 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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  3. ^ "Worldbank, 2020". Archived from the original on 27 February 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae 재외동포현황(2021)/Total number of overseas Koreans (2021). South Korea: Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2021. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  5. ^ 재외동포 현황 [Current status of overseas Koreans]. oka.go.kr. Office of Overseas Koreans, Republic of Korea. 2023.
  6. ^ 재외동포 본문(지역별 상세). Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 15 July 2011. p. 64. Archived from the original on 8 September 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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  12. ^ Yi, SoJeong; An, Hyungmi; Lee, Howard; Lee, Sangin (2014). "Ancestry informative SNP panels for discriminating the major East Asian populations: Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean". Annals of Human Genetics. 35 (10). Cambridge: John Wiley & Sons (published 2013): 477–485. doi:10.1097/FPC.0000000000000075. PMID 25029633. S2CID 43243512.
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