Romanians
Ethnic group native to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Romanians (Romanian: români, pronounced [roˈmɨnʲ]; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking[56][57][58] ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.[59] Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians.[60]
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c. 22.8–24.8 million[1] (including Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups living abroad) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Romania 19,053,815 (2022 Romanian census)[2] Moldova 192,800 (2014 Moldovan census; additional 2,068,058 Moldovans)[3][4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Predominantly Orthodox Christianity (Romanian Orthodox Church), also Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, and Protestant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other Eastern Romance-speaking peoples (most notably Moldovans, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians) |
In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians as well.[61][62] Romanians also form an ethnic minority in several nearby countries situated in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, most notably in Hungary, Serbia (including Timok), and Ukraine.
Estimates of the number of Romanian people worldwide vary from minimum 24 to maximum 30 million, in part depending on whether the definition of the term "Romanian" includes natives of both Romania and Moldova, their respective diasporas, and native speakers of both Romanian and other Eastern Romance languages. Other speakers of the latter languages are the Aromanians, the Megleno-Romanians, and the Istro-Romanians (native to Istria), all of them unevenly distributed throughout the Balkan Peninsula, which may be considered either Romanian subgroups or separated but related ethnicities.