Portuguese in Switzerland
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 42 million to 270 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Portugal 10,374,822 (2011 population of all residents of Portugal, regardless of ethnicity)
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 Brazil
|
60,000,000 (Portuguese ancestry) |
 United States
|
1,471,549 (Portuguese ancestry) |
 Venezuela
|
1,300,000 (Portuguese ancestry) |
 France
|
1,243,419 (Portuguese ancestry) |
 Canada
|
429,850 (Portuguese ancestry) |
 South Africa
|
300,000 |
 Angola
|
300,000 |
 Switzerland
|
265,000 |
 Germany
|
170,000 |
 United Kingdom |
140,000 |
 Spain
|
126,651 |
 Luxembourg
|
103,900 |
 Guyana
|
50,000 (Portuguese ancestry) |
 Australia
|
46,519 |
 Mozambique
|
40,413 |
 Argentina
|
40,100 |
 Belgium
|
38,000 |
 Cape Verde (Portuguese ancestry)
|
22,318 |
 Andorra
|
13,200 |
 Colombia
|
836 |
 Trinidad and Tobago
|
800 |
| Rest of Europe | 30,822 |
| Asia | 30,000 |
| Rest of the Americas | 24,776 |
| Rest of Africa | 8,965 |
| Languages | |
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Languages of Portugal (Portuguese, Mirandese and others) |
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| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christian-Roman Catholic | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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^a Total number of ethnic Portuguese varies wildly based on the definition. |
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Portuguese people are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese as a primary language. Their predominant religion is Christianity, mainly Roman Catholicism.
Historically the Portuguese people's heritage includes the Celts, pre-Celts, Celtiberians and Iberians, the Lusitanians, Gallaecians and Celtici, Latins, the Romans, and Germanics the Visigoths and Suebi.
The Roman Republic conquered Iberia during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. As a result of Roman colonization, the majority of local languages stem from the Vulgar Latin. Due to the large historical extent of the Portuguese Empire and the colonization of territories in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as historical and recent emigration, Portuguese communities can be found in many diverse regions around the globe, and a large Portuguese diaspora exists.
Portuguese people were a key factor to the Age of Exploration, discovering several lands unknown to the Europeans in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, helping to pave the way for globalization.
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