Assyrian Mexicans
Assyrian Mexicans are Mexicans of Assyrian descent or Assyrian citizens who have Mexican citizenship. Most of the Assyrian immigrants who arrived in the country were Chaldean Catholic, as they fled from religious persecution and ethnic persecution in their historical Assyrian homeland in modern-day Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| est. 2,000 Mexicans of Assyrian descent | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mexico City, Nuevo León, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Baja California, Guanajuato, Chihuahua, Durango, Puebla | |
| Languages | |
| Mexican Spanish, minorities speak Neo-Aramaic, Arabic, Persian | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (majority: Syriac Christianity; minority: Protestantism) |
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