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Greek people

Greeks
Έλληνες
Total population
c. 14 – c. 17 million
Regions with significant populations
 Greece approx. 10,000,000 (2011 census)
 United States 1,279,000–3,000,000b(2016 estimate)
 Cyprus 650,000–721,000a(2011 estimate)
 United Kingdom 290,000–345,000 (2011 estimate)
 Germany 395,000g(2012 estimate)
 Australia 378,300 (2011 census)
 Canada 252,960 (2011 census)
 Albania 200,000
 Russia 85,640 (2010 census)
 Ukraine 91,000 (2011 census)
 Italy 30,000–200,000d(2013 estimate)
 South Africa 45,000 (2011 estimate)
 Brazil 50,000e
 France 35,000 (2013 estimate)
 Argentina 20,000–30,000 (2013 estimate)
 Peru 350 (2011 estimate)
 Belgium 35,000 (2011 estimate)
 Georgia 15,000 (2011 estimate)
 Sweden 12,000–15,000 (2011 estimate)
 Kazakhstan 10,000–12,000 (2011 estimate)
  Switzerland 11,000 (2015 estimate)
 Uzbekistan 9,500 (2000 estimate)
 Romania 10,000 (2013 estimate)
 Armenia 6,000 (2002 estimate)
 Mexico 1,500 families (2013 estimate)
 Austria 5,000 (2011 estimate)
 Turkey 4,000
 Hungary 5,000 (2011 estimate)
 Bulgaria 28,500 (2011 estimate)
 Poland 3,000 (2011 estimate)
 Syria 1,500 (2008 estimate)
 Chile 1,500 (2013 estimate)
Languages
Greek
Religion
Greek Orthodox Church

a Citizens of Greece and the Republic of Cyprus. The Greek government does not collect information about ethnic self-determination at the national censuses.
b Includes those of ancestral descent.
c Those whose stated ethnic origins included "Greek" among others. The number of those whose stated ethnic origin is solely "Greek" is 145,250. An additional 3,395 Cypriots of undeclared ethnicity live in Canada.
dApprox. 60,000 Griko people and 30,000 post WW2 migrants.
e "Including descendants".
gIncludes people with "cultural roots".

The Greeks or Hellenes (Greek: Έλληνες [ˈelines]) are an ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Turkey, Sicily, Egypt and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world.

Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people have always been centered on the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople. Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of ancient Greek colonization. The cultural centers of the Greeks have included Athens, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople at various periods.


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