Galicians
Galicians (Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people and has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. Two Romance languages are widely spoken and official in Galicia: the native Galician and Spanish.
Galician bagpipers | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 3.2 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Spain 2,752,676 | |
| Galicia 2,397,613 | 2,397,613 |
| Province of A Coruña | 991,588 |
| Province of Pontevedra | 833,205 |
| Province of Lugo | 300,419 |
| Province of Ourense | 272,401 |
| Spain (excluding Galicia) | 355,063 |
| Argentina | 147,062 |
| Venezuela | 38,440–46,882 |
| Brazil | 38,554 |
| Uruguay | 35,369 |
| Cuba | 31,077 |
| Switzerland | 30,737 |
| France | 16,075 |
| United States | 14,172 |
| Germany | 13,305 |
| United Kingdom | 10,755 |
| Mexico | 9,895 |
| Galicians inscribed in the electoral census and living abroad combined (2013) | 414,650 |
| Languages | |
| Galician, Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Portuguese (particularly Norte), Asturians, Leonese people, other Spaniards, modern Celts | |
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