Swedish ethnic group
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
|
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 Finland
|
c. 280,000 Swedish citizens |
| outside Sweden |
c. 546,000 People with Swedish ancestry |
 United States
|
4,325,000 |
 Canada
|
341,845 (2011 Census) |
 Argentina
|
200,000 |
 United Kingdom
|
100,000 |
 Spain
|
90,000 |
 Norway
|
36,887-90,000 |
 Brazil
|
32,975 |
 Australia
|
30,375 |
 France
|
30,000 |
 Germany
|
23,000 |
 New Zealand
|
1,257 |
 Estonia
|
380 |
| Languages | |
| Swedish | |
| Religion | |
| Mainly Christian: majority Lutheranism, minority Catholicism Historically Catholicism and Norse paganism before Christianization See also: Religion in Sweden |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
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Danes, Norwegians, Dutch, Germans,Finns, Faroese, Icelanders Other Germanic peoples |
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Sweden: c. 8,000,000 (the number does not include ethnic Swedes born outside Sweden but now living in Sweden, nor does it include Swedish-speaking population of Finland now living in Sweden; 2015)
c. 280,000
c. 546,000
Swedes (Swedish: svenskar) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland, with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.
The English term "Swede" has been attested in English since the late 16th century and is of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. In Swedish, the term is svensk, which is believed to have been derived from the name of svear (or Swedes), the people who inhabited Svealand in eastern central Sweden, and were listed as Suiones in Tacitus' history Germania from the 1st century AD. The term is believed to have been derived from the Proto-Indo-European reflexive pronominal root, *s(w)e, as the Latin suus. The word must have meant "one's own (tribesmen)". The same root and original meaning is found in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia.
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