Total population | |
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c. 96 million | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Maghreb | |
Algeria | 43 million (99% of the population)[1] |
Morocco | 36 million (99% of the population)[2] |
Tunisia | 11 million (98% of the population)[3][4] |
Libya | 5.8 million (97% of the population)[5][6] |
France | c. 3 million (at least some Maghrebi ancestry)[7][8] |
Mauritania | 1.3 million (30% of the population)[9][10][11] |
Canada | 37,060[12] |
Languages | |
Maghrebi Arabic | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Islam (Sunni; also Shi'a, Ibadi); minority Judaism, Christianity[13] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Arabs, Sahrawi, Tuareg, Berbers, Arabized Berber, other Afroasiatic-speaking peoples |
Arab-Berber (Arabic: العرب والبربر al-ʿarab wa-l-barbar) is an ethnolinguistic group of the Maghreb, a large region of North Africa along the Mediterranean Sea. Arab-Berbers are people of mixed Arab and Berber origin, many speak a variant of Maghrebi Arabic as their native language,