Vietnamese people in France

Vietnamese people in France
Người Pháp gốc Việt (Vietnamese)
Vietnamiens en France (French)
Total population
~400,000 (2017)[1]
0.61% of the French population
Regions with significant populations
Paris and Île-de-France region, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux
Languages
French (standard and Vietnamese dialect), Vietnamese
Religion
Vietnamese folk religion, Mahayana Buddhism with elements of Confucianism and Taoism; significant minority Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Overseas Vietnamese, Asians in France

Vietnamese people in France (Vietnamese: Người Pháp gốc Việt; French: Diaspora vietnamienne en France) consist of people of full or partial Vietnamese ancestry who were born in or immigrated to France. Their population was about 400,000 as of 2017, making them one of the largest Asian communities in the country.

Unlike other overseas Vietnamese communities in the West, the Vietnamese population in France had already been well-established before the Fall of Saigon and the resulting diaspora. They make up over half of the Vietnamese population in Europe.[2]

  1. ^ Les célébrations du Têt en France par la communauté vietnamienne, Le Petit Journal, 2017 (in French)
  2. ^ Les français d'origine vietnamienne de retour à Saigon, La Croix, 2013 (in French)