Uruguayan people
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (c. 3.5 million) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Uruguay 3,286,314 (2011 Census) |
|
 Argentina
|
117,564 |
 United States
|
48,234 |
 Spain
|
30,000 |
 Australia
|
9,376 |
 France
|
5,970 |
 Canada
|
5,500 |
 New Zealand
|
800–1,000 |
| Languages | |
| Rioplatense Spanish (Uruguayan Spanish), Portuñol | |
| Religion | |
| Predominately Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Latin Americans · Spaniards · Italians · Portuguese · French · and others. | |
Uruguayans or Uruguayan people (Spanish: Uruguayos) are the citizens of Uruguay. The country is home to people of different ethnic origins. As a result, Uruguayans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship.
Uruguay is, along with most of the Americas, a melting pot of different peoples, with the difference that it has traditionally maintained a model that promotes cultural assimilation, hence the different cultures have been absorbed by the mainstream. Uruguay has one of the most heterogeneous populations in South America; the most common ethnic backgrounds being those from Romance-speaking Europe: the Spanish, especially Castilians, Catalans, Galicians, and Canarians, followed by Italians, Portuguese, and French.
Uruguayans share a Spanish linguistic and cultural background with its neighbour country Argentina. Also, like Argentinians, most Uruguayans descend from colonial-era settlers and immigrants from Europe with almost 90% of the population being of European descent.
The majority of these are Spaniards and Italians, followed by the French, Portuguese, Romanians, Greeks, Germans, British (English or Scots), Irish, Poles,Swiss, Russians, Bulgarians, Arab (mainly Lebanese and Syrians), Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, and Armenians.
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