Ukrainians
Ukrainians are a group of East Slavic people from Ukraine. Ukrainians speak the Ukrainian language.
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| Total population | |||||||
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| 37 million[1]–57.5[2] | |||||||
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| Other Slavic peoples, pairticularly other East Slavs | |||||||
In 2001, there were 37 million Ukrainians in Ukraine. (That year, the census counted 37,541,693.[4])
Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians - around 3 million - left Ukraine during 2022's Ukrainian refugee crisis.[5]
The Ukrainians - one of the largest European nations totaling about 44 million.
The largest Ukrainian community abroad Ukraine is in Russia. About 3 million Russian citizens consider themselves to be Ukrainians. About 2 million Ukrainians live in North America (890,000 in the United States and 1 million in Canada). Many Ukrainians live in countries such as Brazil (880,000), Kazakhstan (500,000), Moldova (450,000), Argentina (305,000), Poland (300,000), Belarus (250,000) and Slovakia (200,000). Also, Ukrainian diaspora exist in Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Romania and Latvia.
The connection with the Zaporozhian Cossacks especially, is emphasized in the Ukrainian national anthem, "We are, brothers, of Cossack kin".
Ukrainians Media
"Ethnographical Map of Ukraine" printed just after World War II. Land inhabited by a plurality of ethnic Ukrainians is colored rose (not to be confused with the color given to Kalmyks, also rose).
Population of ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine by oblast (2001)
Neolithic migrations c. 5000–4000 BC. The people of the Proto-Indo-European Sredny Stog culture were the result of a genetic admixture between the Eastern European hunter-gatherers and Caucasus hunter-gatherers.
Principal Component Analysis of European populations from the Genome Ukraine Project
Portrait of Hutsuls, living in the Carpathian mountains, 1902
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References
- ↑ Ukrainians at the Joshua Project
- ↑ The Ukrainian World Congress states that the Ukrainian diaspora makes 20 million: 20mln Ukrainians living abroad Archived 2012-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472. BBC. Retrieved March 19, 2022