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Poles

Poles
Ethnic group
GroupPolish people
(Polacy)
Populationca. 60 million (est.)
Significant populationsPoland 36,983,720
 United States8977235
 Germany1,500,000 - 2,000,000
 Brazil1500000
 Israel1250000
 Canada984565
 France900000
  500,000 - 560,000
 Argentina500000
 Belarus294549
  212800
 Republic of Ireland200000
 Ukraine144130
 Norway120000
 Italy100000
 Australia78340
 Spain78305
 Russia73000
 Czech Republic51968
 Latvia50960
 Greece50000
 Netherlands39500
 Kazakhstan34057
 South Africa30000
 Sweden67518
 Austria21000
 Iceland10540
 Denmark5300
 Moldova4174
 Romania3671
 Finland3000

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thumbThe Polish people, or Poles ( c-plpo'lacy; singular: Polak), are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe. The Polish word for a Polish person is "Polak" (masculine) and "Polka" (feminine).

The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland. Poland's inhabitants live in seven major historic regions: Wielkopolska, Małopolska, Mazovia, Pomerania, Warmia, Mazury and Silesia. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora exists throughout Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine), the Americas (the United States, Brazil and Argentina) and Australia. Chicago, in the United States, has the world's largest urban Polish population after Warsaw.

Over a thousand years ago, the Polans of Giecz, Gniezno and Poznań - an influential tribe in Wielkopolska - succeeded in uniting Lechitic tribes under what became the Piast dynasty, thus giving rise to the Polish state.


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