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Arab diaspora
Descendants of Arab migrants to other countries / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arab diaspora is a term that refers to descendants of the Arab emigrants who, voluntarily or as forcibly, migrated from their native lands to non-Arab countries, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa.
Quick Facts Total population, Regions with significant populations ...
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Total population | |
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50,000,000[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
![]() | 11,600,000–20,000,000[2][3][4] |
![]() | 5,500,000–7,000,000[5][6] |
![]() | 5,000,000[7][lower-alpha 1] |
![]() | 3,700,000[9] |
![]() | 3,500,000[10] |
![]() | 3,200,000[11][12][13][14][15] |
![]() | 1,890,000[16][17] |
![]() | 1,800,000[18] |
![]() | 1,600,000[19]–4,000,000[20] |
![]() | 1,600,000[21] |
![]() | 1,401,950[22] |
![]() | 1,350,000[23][24] |
![]() | 1,100,000[25] |
![]() | 800,000[26][27][28] |
![]() | 750,925[29] |
![]() | 705,968[30] |
![]() | 543,350[31] |
![]() | 500,000[32] |
![]() | 500,000[33] |
![]() | 480,000–613,800[34] |
![]() | 300,000[35] |
![]() | 280,000[36] |
![]() | 170,000 [37] |
![]() | 150,000 (2006)[38] |
![]() | 121,000[39] |
![]() | 118,866 (2010)[40] |
![]() | 100,000[41][42][43][44][45] |
![]() | 80,000 (2010)[46] |
![]() | 75,000[47] |
![]() | 70,000[48] |
![]() | 59,021 (2019)[49] |
![]() | 30,000[50] |
Languages | |
Arabic (mother tongue), French, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Malay, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, German, Turkish, Persian and other languages among others | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Islam in Europe and Asia, Christianity in the Americas, but also Druze, and irreligion[citation needed] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
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Immigrants from Arab countries, such as Sudan, Syria and the Palestinian territories, also form significant diasporas in other Arab states.