British (people)

British people

Total population
British 65,600,000 British diaspora 140 million
Regions with significant populations
United Kingdom 57,678,000(British citizens of any race or ethnicity) British Overseas Territories 247,899
United States	40,234,652-72,065,000 1 678,000 2
Canada	12,134,745 1 609,000 4
Australia	9,031,100 1 1,300,000 4
Hong Kong	3,400,000 3 4
New Zealand	2,425,278 1 217,000 4
Spain	297,229 4
Chile	700,000 1
France	400,000 4
Ireland	291,000 4
Argentina	250,000 1
British Overseas Territories	247,899 3
South Africa	1,600,000 750,000 4
Peru	150,000 1
Germany	115,000 2
Cyprus	59,000 2
United Arab Emirates	240,000 2
Pakistan	47,000 2
Switzerland	45,000 2
Netherlands	44,000 2
Israel	44,000 2
Thailand	51,000 2
Portugal	41,000 2
China	36,000 2
Norway	34,279 1
Turkey	34,000 2
India	32,000 2
Kenya	29,000 2
Barbados	27,000 2
Italy	26,000 2
Saudi Arabia	26,000 2
Jamaica	25,000 2
Trinidad and Tobago	25,000 2
Greece	24,000 2
Japan	15,496 2
Languages
Cornish English Guernésiais Irish Jèrriais Llanito Manx Scots (including Ulster-Scots) Scottish Gaelic Welsh Immigrant languages
Religion
Multiple denominations
1. People who identify of full or partial British ancestry born into that country. 2. UK-born people who identify of British ancestry only. 3. British citizens by way of residency in the British overseas territories; however, not all have ancestry from the United Kingdom. 4. British citizens or nationals.

 United Kingdom
57,678,000(British citizens of any race or ethnicity)

1. People who identify of full or partial British ancestry born into that country.

2. UK-born people who identify of British ancestry only.
3. British citizens by way of residency in the British overseas territories; however, not all have ancestry from the United Kingdom.
4. British citizens or nationals.

British people, or Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown dependencies, and their descendants.British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Celtic Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people and Bretons.

Although early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the creation of the united Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity. The notion of Britishness was forged during the Napoleonic Wars between Britain and the First French Empire, and developed further during the Victorian era. The complex history of the formation of the United Kingdom created a "particular sense of nationhood and belonging" in Great Britain and Ireland; Britishness became "superimposed on much older identities", of English, Scots, Welsh and Irish cultures, whose distinctiveness still resists notions of a homogenised British identity. Because of longstanding ethno-sectarian divisions, British identity in Northern Ireland is controversial, but it is held with strong conviction by Unionists.

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