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Ethnic Poles

Poles
Polacy
Total population
c. 60 million
Regions with significant populations
 Poland   38,000,000
   United States 10,600,000
   Brazil 3,000,000
   Germany 2,850,000
   Israel 1,250,000
   Canada 1,010,705
   France

1,000,000

Languages
Polish • Kashubian • Silesian
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Other West Slavs such as Kashubians, Silesians, Czechs, Slovaks and Sorbs

1,000,000

1,747

The Poles (Polish: Polacy, pronounced [pɔˈlat͡sɨ]; singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine: Polka) are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Poland. The population of Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,538,000 (based on the 2011 census). Poland's population inhabits several historic regions, including Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, Mazovia, Silesia, Pomerania, Kuyavia, Warmia (Ermland), Masuria, and Podlachia.

Over a thousand years ago, the Polans – an influential tribe in "Wielkopolska", inhabiting the areas around Giecz, Gniezno, and Poznań – succeeded in uniting various Lechitic tribes under what became the Piast dynasty, thereby creating the Polish state.

A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the Polonia) exists throughout Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Latvia, Ukraine, Italy, Scandinavia), the Americas (the United States, Brazil, Canada, Argentina) and in Australasia (Australia and New Zealand). Today the largest urban concentration of Poles is the Katowice urban agglomeration (the Silesian Metropolis) of 2.7 million inhabitants.


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