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Italian (people)

Italians
Italiani
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Total population

c. 135 million

(Italian citizens: c. 60 million; Italian ancestry: c. 75 million)
Regions with significant populations
 Italy        c. 55,000,000
 Brazil 23,047,494
 Argentina 20,500,000
 United States 17,250,211
 Venezuela 1,736,766
 France 1,530,563
 Canada 1,488,425
 Peru 1,400,000
 Uruguay 1,055,220
 Australia 916,121
 Germany 830,000
  Switzerland 545,274
 Belgium 451,825
 Chile 184,997
 United Kingdom 130,000
 Mexico 85,000
 South Africa 77,400
 Spain 38,694
 Austria 29,287
 Albania 19,000
 Croatia 17,807
 New Zealand 3,795
 Czech Republic 3,503
 Romania 3,203
Languages
Italian and other languages (Corsican · Sardinian · Sicilian · Neapolitan · Emilian-Romagnol · Ligurian · Piedmontese · Lombard · Venetian · Friulian · Ladin · Romansh · Istriot)
Religion
Roman Catholic (predominantly)
Related ethnic groups
other Romance peoples, Swiss people

c. 135 million

Italians (Italian: italiani [itaˈljaːni]) are a nation and ethnic group native to Italy who share a common culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a native tongue. Legally, Italians are citizens of the Italian Republic, regardless of ancestry or country of residence (though the principle of jus sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favourably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and from ethnic Italians living in territories adjacent to the Italian Peninsula. The majority of Italian nationals are native speakers of Standard Italian, though many Italians speak other languages native to Italy (often colloquially referred to as "Italian dialects").

In 2014, in addition to about 55 million Italians in Italy (91% of the Italian national population), Italian-speaking autonomous groups are found in neighbouring nations: about half a million are in Switzerland and a large population is in France, and there are smaller groups in Slovenia and Croatia, primarily in Istria and Dalmatia. Because of the wide-ranging diaspora, about 5 million Italian citizens and nearly 80 million people of full or partial Italian ancestry live outside of their own homeland, most notably in parts of Europe, the Americas and Australia.


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