Poles

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Poles
(Polacy)
Some well-known Poles and people with Polish roots.
Top: Marie Curie, Pope John Paul II, Nicolaus Copernicus, Lech Wałęsa, Conrad.
Middle: Gretzky, Jan III Sobieski, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Rejewski, Wajda, Kolbe.
Bottom: Józef Piłsudski, Lem, Brzeziński, Warner, Wielicki, Wolszczan, Negri.
Total population

60 million (est.)[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Poland 38,860,000
 [2]
 United States 10,024,711 [3]
 Brazil 1,800,000 [4]
 Germany 1,055,700 [5]
 Canada 984,565 [6]
 France 900,000
 United Kingdom (est.) 500,000 [1][7]
 Argentina 100,000 [8]
 Belarus 400,000 [9]
Flag of Lithuania.svg 250,000 [10]
 Russia 173,000 [11]
 Australia 150,900 [12]
 Ukraine 144,130 [13]
 Norway 120,000 [14]
 Spain 78,305 [15]
Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 63,090 [16]
 Czech Republic 52,000 [17]
 Latvia 51,995 [18]
 Italy 50,790 [19]
Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 50,000 [20]
 Kazakhstan 47,293 [21]
 Netherlands 39,500 [22]
 Austria 21,000 [23]
Flag of Iceland.svg 10,000 [24]
 Turkey 5,000 [25]
Rest of World 1,145,000 (est.)
 [26]
Languages
Polish
Religions
Predominantly Roman Catholicism with Orthodox, Protestant, Atheist and Jewish minorities.

The Polish people, or Poles (Polish: Polacy, singular Polak) as a nation, they are bounded by the Polish language, which belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of west slavic languages of Central Europe, living mainly in Poland. Their religion is mainly Roman Catholic. They use modified Latin alphabet. There are about 50-60 million of Poles on all the world.

Notes [change]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Świat Polonii, witryna Stowarzyszenia Wspólnota Polska: „Polacy za granicą” (Polish people abroad as per summary by Świat Polonii, internet portal of the Polish Association Wspólnota Polska)
  2. ↑ Excel spreadsheet from Polish Central Statistical Office
  3. ↑ 2006 Community Survey
  4. ↑ Polish Society in Brazil
  5. ↑ (German) Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund - Ergebnisse des Mikrozensus 2005 Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (German text about migrants in Germany) 886 KiBPDF.
  6. ↑ List of Canadians by ethnicity
  7. ↑ (English) Poles in the UK, Polish Express, source: government statistics.
    ^ (Polish) According to Tomasz Ziemba from Polish Express online 1,020,000 Polish visitors in the UK logged into Polish chatroom Gadu–Gadu in January: Policzyło nas Gadu–Gadu
    ^ (Polish) Tomasz Wybranowski, Korespondencja, Tygodnik Przegląd, 22.08.2007, onet.pl
    ^ (English) Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, Office for National Statistics recorded the number of Poles who have travelled to the UK in 2006 at over 2,000,000. The number of those who stay exceeds 250,000.
  8. ↑ Poles in Argentina
  9. ↑ Poles in Belarus
  10. ↑ Poles in Lithuania
  11. ↑ Poles in Russia
  12. ↑ Poles in AustraliaPDF (56.3 KiB)
  13. ↑ Poles in Ukraine
  14. ↑ Aftenposten.no: - 120.000 polakker i Norge (Innenriks)
  15. ↑ http://www.ine.es/prensa/np503.pdf
  16. ↑ Poles in Ireland
  17. ↑ http://wtd.vlada.cz/files/rvk/rnm/zprava_mensiny_2001_en.pdfPDF (1.41 MiB)
  18. ↑ [1]
  19. ↑ Poles in Italy (click on Tutti i Paesi - Tavola)
  20. ↑ Poles in Mexico
  21. ↑ [2]PDF (87.2 KiB)
  22. ↑ Poles in NetherlandsPDF (162 KiB)
  23. ↑ Poles in AustriaPDF
  24. ↑ www.hagstofa.is
  25. ↑ www.polonezkoy.com
  26. ↑ Poles around the World (>polonia > statystyka)


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