People from Catalonia and Northern Catalonia
Ethnic group
Catalans c. 9 million
Spain (people born in Catalonia of any ethnicity; excludes ethnic Catalans in other regions in Spain)8,005,784 (2023)[ 1] France (people born in Pyrénées-Orientales )491,000 (2023)[ 2] Argentina (estimates vary)188,000[citation needed ] Mexico 63,000[citation needed ] Germany 48,000[citation needed ] Peru 39,000[citation needed ] Andorra 29,000[citation needed ] Italy (Algherese dialect speakers in Alghero , Sardinia )20,000[ 3] Chile 16,000[citation needed ] Brazil 11,787[citation needed ] Venezuela 6,200[citation needed ] Colombia 6,100[ 4] Cuba 3,600[citation needed ] Ecuador 3,500[ 5] United States (estimates vary)700-1,750[ 6] [ 7] Canada 1,283[ 8] Finland 103[ 9] Catalan , Catalan Sign Occitan (In Aran Valley ) Spanish , French , Italian (as a result of immigration or language shift )Occitans , Spaniards (Aragonese , Castilians ), Valencians , Northern Italians
Catalans (Catalan , French and Occitan : catalans ; Spanish : catalanes , Italian : catalani , Sardinian : cadelanos ) are a Romance ethnic group [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] native to Catalonia , who speak Catalan .[ 13] The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia , a nationality and autonomous community in Spain[ 14] and the inhabitants of the Roussillon historical region in southern France, today the Pyrénées Orientales department,[ 15] also called Northern Catalonia [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] and Pays Catalan in French.[ 19] [ 20] [ 21] [ 22]
Some authors also extend the word "Catalans" to include all people from areas in which Catalan is spoken , namely those from Andorra , Valencia , the Balearic Islands , eastern Aragon , Roussillon , and the city of Alghero in Sardinia .[ 23] [ 24] [ 25]
The Catalan government regularly surveys its population regarding its "sentiment of belonging". As of July 2019, the results point out that 46.7% of the Catalans and other people living in Catalonia would like independence from Spain, 1.3% less than the year before.[ 26]
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^ Cole, Jeffrey (2011). Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO. p. 67. ISBN 978-0313309847 . As a relatively wealthy, peaceful and generally successful ethnic-national unit, Catalans have often sought to be a model for conflictive zones in Europe
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^ Article 7 of Catalonia's Statute of Autonomy of 2006: "Gaudeixen de la condició política de catalans o ciutadans de Catalunya els ciutadans espanyols que tenen veïnatge administratiu a Catalunya."
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^ "Catalan" (in Catalan). Institut d'Estudis Catalans dictionary. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2019 . Relative to or belonging to the Catalan Countries or their inhabitants
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^ Danver, Steven L. (2013). Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues . Routledge . p. 278. ISBN 978-1317464006 . Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2020 . The majority of Catalans (5.9 million) live in the northeast of Spain in the administrative regions of Catalonia and Valencia.
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