Black people in Europe
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| Country | Black Population | Article | Afro-Caribbean Hubs | Description |
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| France | No official data collected Estimates include: 1.5 million 1.865 million 3 � 5 million |
Black people in France | Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Lille | Sub Saharan mainly (Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast) and Black Caribbeans (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique) or French Guiana |
| Italy | about 230,000 | Black people in Italy | Rome, Milan, Brescia, Turin, Palermo Venice, Naples | Sub Saharan Africans only Mainly from Central Africa, most coming from Senegal (60,000), Nigeria (38,000) and Ghana (37,000). |
| 1,148,738 (2001 census) (Not including people of mixed Black and another ethnicity) |
Black British (Black Caribbean, Black African, Other Black) |
London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Liverpool | Black Africans now outnumber Afro-Caribbeans in the UK. Largest subgroups of the Black British community are Nigerians, Jamaicans, Ghanaians and Zimbabweans. Although the 2001 census showed only 1.1 million Black British people, there are an estimated 1.4 million Black people in England alone in 2007, some community estimates suggest the figure to be much higher (with the possibility of up to 3 million Nigerians and 1.5 million Ghanaians in the UK). | |
| Netherlands | 200,000 | Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Almere, Eindhoven | Sub Saharan Africans only Mainly Surinamese, but also people from the Netherlands Antilles, Cape Verde and other parts of Africa | |
| Germany | ca. 500,000 | Afro-Germans | Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne | Ethnicity statistics are prohibited in Germany but the ISD (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland / Initiative Black People in Germany) estimates a number of 500.000 Black Germans. It remains unclear if this number includes only black people with a German passport or if it includes every black person residing in Germany. |
| Spain | 150,000 | Andalusia, Canary Islands, Madrid, Barcelona | Sub Saharan Africans only Mainly from Senegal, Nigeria, Gambia or the former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea | |
| Portugal | 116,071 | Portuguese of Black African ancestry | Lisbon, Porto, Faro | Mostly from former Portuguese colonies in Africa, particularly Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Brazilians that may be Black (see Afro-Brazilian). |
| Switzerland | 66,600 | African diaspora in Switzerland | ||
| Republic of Ireland | 45,700 | Black people in Ireland | Dublin |
| By region | ||
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| Americas | Anglo America * Argentina * Belize * Bolivia * Brazil * Canada (Black Nova Scotians) * Colombia * Chile * Costa Rica * Cuba * Ecuador * Grenada * Guyana * Jamaica (Jamaican Maroons) * Latin America (African immigrants) * Mexico * Peru * Puerto Rico * Trinidad & Tobago * United States (African immigrants * Black Hispanic * Black Indians in the U.S. * Black Seminoles) * Uruguay | |
| South Asia | India & Pakistan * Sri Lanka | |
| Europe | Abkhazia * France (African Americans) * Germany * Greece * Ireland * Italy * Norway * Poland * Portugal * Russia * Turkey * United Kingdom (Black Africans * Black Caribbeans * Other Black groups) | |
| Middle East | Iran * Iraq * Israel | |
| Oceania | Australia * New Zealand | |
| See also | ||
| LGBT topics * Afro-American religion * Africana womanism | ||
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