Chinese people in Portugal

Chinese people in Portugal
Total population
26,074[1]
Includes foreign citizens only
Regions with significant populations
Lisbon[2]
Languages
Chinese (primarily Wenzhounese and Mandarin among recent arrivals; Cantonese among established migrants), Portuguese[3]
Religion
Mahayana Buddhism[4]
Related ethnic groups
Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique, other overseas Chinese groups[5]
Chinese people in Portugal
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese葡萄牙華人
Simplified Chinese葡萄牙华人
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPútáoyá Huárén
Wu
RomanizationPhu-toh-ngaa-gho-nin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationpòuh tòuh ngàh wàh yàhn
Jyutpingpou4 tou4 ngaa4 waa4 jan4
Portuguese name
PortugueseChineses em Portugal

Chinese people in Portugal (Chinese: 葡萄牙華人, Cantonese Yale: pòuh tòuh ngàh wàh yàhn) form the country's largest Asian community, and the twelfth-largest foreign community overall.[6] Despite forming only a small part of the overseas Chinese population in Europe, the Chinese community in Portugal is one of the continent's oldest due to the country's colonial and trade history with Macau dating back to the 16th century. There are about 30,000 people of Chinese descent residing in Portugal[7]

  1. ^ "Relatório de Imigração, Fronteiras e Asilo 2020" (PDF). sef.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  2. ^ de Oliveira 2003, p. 10
  3. ^ Santos Neves & Rocha-Trindade 2008, p. 163
  4. ^ "BLIA Lisboa". BLIA Lisboa. 22 November 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  5. ^ de Oliveira 2003, p. 9
  6. ^ Santos Neves & Rocha-Trindade 2008, p. 162
  7. ^ "Eles já não são apenas chineses. Sentem-se portugueses e adoram". 2 December 2018.

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