Arabs
| عَرَب (‘arab) | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| c. 450 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Arab League 423 million |
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| Significant Arab diaspora in: | |
 Brazil
|
12,000,000 |
 France
|
6,000,000 |
 Argentina
|
3,500,000 |
 United States
|
3,500,000 |
 Turkey
|
1,800,000–2,600,000 |
 Israel
|
1,700,000 |
 Venezuela
|
1,600,000 |
 Colombia
|
1,500,000 |
 Iran
|
1,500,000 |
 Chad
|
1,493,410 |
 Germany
|
1,000,000+ |
 Mexico
|
1,100,000 |
 Chile
|
700,000 |
 United Kingdom
|
500,000 |
 Canada
|
450,000 |
 Netherlands
|
480,000 |
 Australia
|
350,000 |
 Honduras
|
150,000-200,000 |
| Languages | |
| Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Islam (Sunni; also Shia, Ibadi, Sufi); minority Christianity, Druze, Bahá'í Faith, other religions,religious humanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Afroasiatic-speaking peoples | |
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a Arab ethnicity should not be confused with non-Arabic-speaking ethnicities that are also native to the Arab world. b Not all Arabs are Muslims and not all Muslims are Arabs. An Arab can follow any religion or irreligion. |
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Arabs (Arabic: عَرَب [ˈʕarab] 
) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Arab world. They primarily live in the Arab states in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and western Indian Ocean islands.
The Arabs are first mentioned in the mid-ninth century BCE as a tribal people dwelling in the central Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs appear to have been under the vassalage of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–612 BC), and the succeeding Neo-Babylonian (626–539 BC), Achaemid (539–332 BC), Seleucid and Parthian empires.Arab tribes, most notably the Ghassanids and Lakhmids, begin to appear in the southern Syrian Desert from the mid 3rd century CE onward, during the mid to later stages of the Roman and Sasanian empires. Tradition holds that Arabs descend from Ishmael, the son of Abraham. The Arabian Desert is the birthplace of “Arab”. There are other Arab groups as well that spread in the land and existed for millennia.
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