Poles
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Poles
Polacy
Total population
ca. 58,5 million
Regions with significant populations
Poland 36 522 000 (Poles in Poland)
38 512 000 (population of Poland)
Polish diaspora
United States (Polish ancestry)
9,000,000
Germany
1,500,000 – 2,000,000
Brazil
1,800,000
Israel
1,250,000
Canada
1,010,705
France
1,000,000
United Kingdom
500,000 – 1,000,000
Argentina
500,000
Belarus
294,549
Lithuania
212,800
Ireland
122,585
Australia
216,056
Ukraine
144,130
Norway
120,000
Italy
109,018
Russia
73,000
Czech Republic
51,968
Latvia
44,783
Netherlands
39,500
Kazakhstan
34,057
Denmark
31,720
South Africa
30,000
Sweden
27,518
Austria
21,000
Iceland
10,540
Hungary
5,730
Moldova
4,174
Romania
3,671
Slovakia
3,084
Languages
Polish • Kashubian • Silesian
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Significant minorities of Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism (especially Lutheranism), Judaism and Non-Religious minorities
Poles (Polish: Polacy ; singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine: Polka) are a nation of predominantly West Slavic ethnic origin, who are native to Eastern and Central Europe, inhabiting mainly Poland and some other European and American countries. The present population of Poles living in Poland is estimated at 36,522,000 out of the overall Poland population of 38,512,000 (based on the census of 2011).The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland. Poland's inhabitants live in the following historic regions of the country: Wielkopolska, Malopolska, Mazovia (Polish: Mazowsze), Silesia (Polish: Slask), Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze), Kujawy, Warmia, Mazury, and Podlasie. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora exists throughout Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine), the Americas (the United States, Brazil and Argentina) and Australia. In 1960, Chicago in the United States, had the world's largest urban Polish population after Warsaw. Today, the largest urban concentration of Poles is the Katowice urban agglomeration known as the Silesian Metropolis of 2.7 million inhabitants. There is a festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin called Polish Fest that celebrates the Polish people.Over a thousand years ago, the Polans of Giecz, Gniezno and Poznan — an influential tribe in Wielkopolska — succeeded in uniting Lechitic tribes under what became the Piast dynasty, thus giving rise to the Polish state.
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