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The Polish people, or Poles (Polish: Polacy, singular Polak) are a Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Poland, they are bounded by the Polish language, which belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of west slavic languages of Central Europe, living mainly in Poland. Their religion is mainly Roman Catholic. They use modified Latin alphabet.

Poles
Polacy
Matejko Christianization of Poland.jpg
The Baptism of Poland. Detail from Jan Matejko's Christianisation of Poland AD 966.
Total population
c. 60 million[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Poland   38,000,000[2][3][4]
   United States10,600,000[3][4][1][5]
  File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil3,000,000[5]
   Germany2,850,000[6]
 Israel1,250,000 (ancestry, passport eligible);[7] 202,300 (citizenship)[8]
   Canada1,010,705[9]
   France1,000,000[1]
Other countries
   United Kingdom911,000[10][11]
  File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina500,000[12]
   Belarus295,000[13]
   Russia273,000[14]
   Australia216,056[15]
   Lithuania164,000[16]
   Ukraine144,130[17]
  Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland122,515[18]
   Norway120,000[19]
   Italy109,018[20]
   Sweden75,323[21]
  File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium70,600[14]
   Spain70,606[22]
   Austria69,898[23]
  File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands60,000[14]
   Latvia44,783[24]
   Denmark37,876[25]
   Kazakhstan34,057[26]
   South Africa30,000[27]
   Czech Republic20,305[28]
  File:Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay16,748[29]
   United Arab Emirates14,500[14]
   Greece14,145
   Iceland10,540[30]
  File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela9,000[31]
   Peru7,000[32]
   Hungary5,730[33]
  Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova4,174[34]
   Romania3,671[35]
   Slovakia3,084[36]
   Finland3,000[37]
   New Zealand2,166[38]
  Flag of Estonia (bordered).svg1,747[39]
Languages
Polish • Kashubian • Silesian
Religion
Christianity: Predominantly Roman Catholicism[40]
Related ethnic groups
Other West Slavs: Silesians, Kashubs, Czechs, Slovaks, Moravians, Sorbs, Hanoverian Wends(†), Obotrites(†), Veleti(†)

There are about 60 million Poles in the world. Besides Poland, many live in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and elsewhere.

The most famous Poles are Pope John Paul II, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Nicolaus Copernicus and Lech Wałęsa.

Polish surnames often end with "-ski", "-ska", "-cki" or "-cka".

The most popular Polish surnames are Nowak and Kowalski.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 37.5–38 million in Poland and 21–22 million ethnic Poles or people of ethnic Polish extraction elsewhere. "Polmap. Rozmieszczenie ludności pochodzenia polskiego (w mln)" Archived 2015-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Central Statistical Office. The national-ethnic affiliation in the population – The results of the census of population and housing in 2011 (in pl) (January 2013). p. 1. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Struktura narodowo-etniczna, językowa i wyznaniowa ludności Polski [Narodowy Spis Powszechny Ludności i Mieszkań 2011] (in Polish) (November 2015). Warsaw: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. p. 129–136. ISBN 978-83-7027-597-6.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Główny Urząd Statystyczny. Ludność. Stan i struktura demograficzno-społeczna (in Polish) (January 2013)Główny Urząd Statystyczny. p. 89–101. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska. Wspolnota-polska.org.pl. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Herwartz, Christoph. Polen in Deutschland: Verstecken war gestern (16 June 2016)Die Zeit.
  7. ↑ סיקולר, נעמה (16 March 2007). "ynet דרכון פולני בזכות הסבתא מוורשה - כלכלה". ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3376540,00.html. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
  8. ↑ Jews, by Country of Origin and Age (in English, Hebrew). Statistical Abstract of Israel (26 September 2011)Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  9. ↑ Ethnic Origin (264), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3), Generation Status (4), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey (8 May 2013).
  10. ↑ Polish diaspora in numbers (in pl)association "Polish Community". Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  11. ↑ British Office for National Statistics
  12. ↑ Clarín.com – La ampliación de la Unión Europea habilita a 600 mil argentinos para ser comunitarios. Edant.clarin.com (27 April 2004). Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  13. ↑ Changes in the populations of the majority ethnic groups. Belstat.gov.by. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Wspólnota Polska. Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska. Wspolnota-polska.org.pl. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  15. ↑ Australia Census. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  16. ↑ alkas, VšĮ Tėviškės. A. Butkus. Lietuvos gyventojai tautybės požiūriu - Alkas.lt (16 December 2015).
  17. ↑ Ukrainian Census 2001. 2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  18. ↑ Server Error 404 - CSO - Central Statistics Office. Cso.ie. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  19. ↑ - 120.000 polakker i Norge. Aftenposten. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  20. ↑ ISTAT. Istat.it. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  21. ↑ Befolkning efter födelseland och ursprungsland 31 december 2012 (in sv) (31 December 2013)Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  22. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Population Figures at 1 January 2014 – Migration Statistics 2013. Ine.es. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  23. ↑ [1][dead link]
  24. ↑ On key provisional results of Population and Housing Census 2011. Csb.gov.lv. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  25. ↑ Statistics Denmark:FOLK1: Population at the first day of the quarter by sex, age, ancestry, country of origin and citizenshipStatistics Denmark. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  26. ↑ Kazakhstan National Census 2009. Stat.kz.[dead link]
  27. ↑ Wspólnota Polska. Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska. Wspolnota-polska.org.pl. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  28. ↑ Archived copy. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  29. ↑ Ante la crisis, Europa y el mundo miran a Latinoamérica (in Spanish) (2012)Acercando Naciones.
  30. ↑ [2] Archived 2017-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
  31. ↑ Country – Venezuela : Joshua Project. Joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  32. ↑ Erwin Dopf. Migraciones europeas minoritarias. Espejodelperu.com.pe. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  33. ↑ 2011 Census of Hungary. Ksh.hu. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  34. ↑ 2004 Moldovan census, including Transnistria
  35. ↑ 2002 Romanian census.
  36. ↑ Statistics. Portal.statistics.sk. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  37. ↑ Placówki Dyplomatyczne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Helsinki.polemb.net. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  38. ↑ 2013 Census ethnic group profiles. Stats.govt.nz. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  39. ↑ Population by ethnic nationalityStatistics Estonia. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  40. ↑ GUS, Narodowy Spis Powszechny Ludnosci 2011: 4.4. Przynależność wyznaniowa (National Survey 2011: 4.4 Membership in faith communities) p. 99/337 (PDF file, direct download 3.3 MB). ISBN 978-83-7027-521-1 Retrieved 27 December 2014.


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