Romanian diaspora

The Romanian diaspora is the ethnically Romanian population outside Romania and Moldova. The concept does not usually include the ethnic Romanians who live as natives in the states surrounding Romania, chiefly those Romanians who live in Ukraine and Serbia. The diaspora does include the people of Romanian ancestry born in the respective country. ^{[citation needed]} The number of all Romanians abroad is estimated at about 4-12 million people, depending on one's definition of the term "Romanian".

In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at about 8 million people by the president of Romania, Traian Băsescu, most of them living in the former USSR, Western Europe (esp. Spain and France, see Romanian-French), North America, South America and Australia. ^[1] It is unclear if Băsescu included the Romanians living in the immediate surroundings of the Romanian state. It is also unclear if Băsescu counted Jewish-Romanians, ethnic Hungarians who are native to Northern Romania, also known as Csángó or Szeklers and Transylvanian Saxons of ethnic German origins as Romanians when he made his estimate, as well as third-generation individuals in the United States and Canada.

Below is a list of ethnic Romanians and the countries where they live, excluding those who live in Romania and Moldova. (Figures for Spain, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Portugal and Turkey are for Romanian citizens, and may include individuals of any ethnicity.) There are ethnic Romanians in Turkey, both in Asian and European parts of the country, descendants of Walachian settlers invited by the Ottoman Empire from the early 14th to the late 19th centuries. Over 100,000 ethnic Romanians are living throughout far eastern Russia, thousands of Romanians in villages of the Amur River valley on the Chinese Manchurian side of that river, and about 2,000 Romanian immigrants in Japan since the late 20th century. ^{[citation needed]}

Distribution by country

Country	Romanian Population	Origin
Italy	898,278^[2]^[3]^[4] 953,000 ^[5]	Immigrants
Spain	829,715 (2010)^[6]	Immigrants
United States	462,526 (2001)^[7]	Immigrants
Ukraine	150,989 (2001)^[8] (409,608 including Moldovans)	Indigenous to Zakarpattia Oblast, Odessa Oblast and Chernivtsi Oblast.
Germany	73,365-200,000^[9]^[10]	Immigrants
Canada	79,650^[11] (192,170 including of mixed origin)	Immigrants
Russia	5,308 (177,638 including Moldovans) ^[12]	Immigrants / Displaced during World War II
Serbia	34,576 (74,630 including Timok Vlachs)	Indigenous to Vojvodina (Banat), Timočka Krajina and parts of Central Serbia.
Austria	29,044 ^[13]	Immigrants
Greece	25,375 ^[14]	Indigenous to small parts of Western, Central and Northern Greece
Kazakhstan	20,000 (including Moldovans)^[15]^[16]	Immigrants / Displaced during World War II
United Kingdom	19,096^[17]	Immigrants
Australia	18,320^[18]	Immigrants
France	18,000^[19]	Immigrants
Hungary	7,995 ^[20]	Indigenous to Eastern Hungary
Sweden	12,748 ^[21]	Immigrants
Portugal	10,818^[22]	Immigrants
South Africa	c.3,000 ^[23]	Immigrants
region24 = New Zealand	pop24 =3000	ref24 = ^[24]
Bulgaria	1,088 (11,654 including Timok Vlachs)	Indigenous to Vidin Province and parts of Northern Bulgaria
Turkey	1,304 ^[25]	Immigrants
TOTAL	ca. 4,000,000 ^[26]