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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 1,600,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Caracas, Maracaibo, Valencia, Maracay, Ciudad Guayana, Barcelona-Puerto La Cruz, Punto Fijo, Margarita Island | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, Arabic, English | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism Eastern Catholicism (Maronites) Eastern Orthodoxy Islam Druze | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arab Colombians, Arab Argentines, Arab Mexicans, Arab Brazilians, Arab diaspora, Arab Christians, Arab Muslims, Druze, Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians, other Arabs |
Arab Venezuelans (Arabic: عرب فنزويلا; Spanish: Árabe-Venezolano) refers to Venezuelan citizens of Arab origin or descent. There are around 1,600,000 Venezuelans of Arab origin, mainly from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.[1] Most Arab Venezuelans are of Syrian descent with their number between 400,000 and 1 million inhabitants,[2][3] and Lebanese descent with their number between 341,000[4] and 500,000.[5]
- ^ a b Margolis, Mac (15 September 2013). "Abdel el-Zabayar: From Parliament to the Frontlines". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 15 September 2013.
...Venezuela, where the estimated 1.6 million people of Arab descent...
- ^ Gligorevic, Tihomir (11 September 2013). "Venezuela boast a Syrian population that nears half a million". inserbia.info. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ Salloum, Habeeb (2000). "Arabs Making Their Mark in Latin America: Generations of Immigrants in Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico". Al Jadid. 16 (30). Retrieved 18 January 2017.
These newcomers scattered throughout the country and are the core of today's 400,000 Syrians living in Venezuela... [t]hey have joined the approximately 500,000 prior immigrants and their descendants, reinforcing Arab culture amongst the older Arab community which had been almost totally assimilated.
- ^ "Geographical Distribution of the Lebanese Diaspora". iLoubnan. Wordpress. 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Por amor a Venezuela: La emigración libanesa" [For the love of Venezuela: Lebanese emigration]. historico.notitarde.com (in Spanish). 9 August 1999. Archived from the original on 14 July 2006. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
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