Romanians

Not to be confused with Romani people, Romans or Aromanians.
For information on the population of Romania, see Demographics of Romania.

Romanians
Români
Ethnic distribution of Romanians around the world
Total population
c. 22.8–24.8 million[1] (including Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups living abroad)
Regions with significant populations
 Romania 19,053,815 (2022 Romanian census)[2]
 Moldova 192,800 (2014 Moldovan census; additional 2,068,058 Moldovans)[3][4]
Other countries
Europe
 Italy1,206,938 migrants from Romania, of all ethnic groups[5]
 Spain630,795 Romanian citizens (2023)[6]-1,079,726 including naturalized and second and third generation Romanians (2022)[7][8]
 Germany866,000 (2022) migrants from Romania of all ethnic groups, including a wide range of Romanian Germans as well[9]
 United Kingdom329,000 Romanian-born residents (2022)[10]
 France200,000–500,000 (2022)[11] Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[12]
 Ukraine150,989 (additional 258,619 Moldovans)[13]
 Austria131,788 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups, including many Transylvanian Saxons as well[14]
 Belgium92,746 migrants from Romania, of all ethnic groups[15]
 Greece46,523 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[16]
 Netherlands39,654 migrants from Romania, of all ethnic groups[17]
 Portugal39,000 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[18]
 Hungary36,506[19]
 Denmark34,960 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[20]
 Sweden32,294 born in Romania, of all ethnic groups[21]
 Ireland29,186 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[22]
Cyprus Cyprus24,376 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[23]
 Serbia23,044 (additional 21,013 Timok Vlachs)[24]
  Switzerland21,593 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[25]
 Norway18,877 migrants of Romania, of all ethnic groups[26]
 Czech Republic14,684 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[27][28]
 Turkey14,411 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[29]
 Luxembourg5,209 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[30]
 Polandc. 5,000[31]
 Slovakia4,941 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[32]
 Finland4,902 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[33]
 Russia3,201[34]
 Malta2,000[citation needed]
 Iceland1,463 Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups[35]
 Bulgaria891[36]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina100[37]
North America
 United States518,653–1,400,000 (incl. mixed origin, Romanian Germans and Romanian Jews)[38][39][40][41][42]
 Canada204,625–400,000 (incl. mixed origin)[43][44]
 Mexico569[45]
South America
 Brazil200,000 migrants from Romania and Romanian citizens, of all ethnic groups[46]
 Venezuela10,000 migrants from Romania, of all ethnic groups[47]
 Argentina10,000 of Romanian origin, including Romanian Jews and Romanian Romani[48]
 Colombia350[49]
 Uruguay200[49]
 Peru174[49]
Oceania
 Australia20,998 first and second generation migrants from Romania, of all ethnic groups[50]
 New Zealand3,100[51]
Asia
 Israel100,823[52] (mostly Romanian Jews)
 Japan2,708[53]
 Kazakhstan421[54][55]
 Vietnam100[49]
Africa
 South Africa2,828[52]
 Egypt420[49]
Languages
Romanian
Religion
Predominantly Orthodox Christianity
(Romanian Orthodox Church),
also Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, and Protestant
Related ethnic groups
Other Eastern Romance-speaking peoples
(most notably Moldovans, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians)
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Romanians (Romanian: români, pronounced [roˈmɨnʲ]; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking[56][57][58] ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.[59] Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians.[60]

In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians as well.[61][62] Romanians also form an ethnic minority in several nearby countries situated in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, most notably in Hungary, Serbia (including Timok), and Ukraine.

Estimates of the number of Romanian people worldwide vary from minimum 24 to maximum 30 million, in part depending on whether the definition of the term "Romanian" includes natives of both Romania and Moldova, their respective diasporas, and native speakers of both Romanian and other Eastern Romance languages. Other speakers of the latter languages are the Aromanians, the Megleno-Romanians, and the Istro-Romanians (native to Istria), all of them unevenly distributed throughout the Balkan Peninsula, which may be considered either Romanian subgroups or separated but related ethnicities.

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