French peopleFrançais c. 100 million
France: 67,413,000 [ 1]
French diaspora and people of French ancestry: c. 30 million [ 2]
France 67,818,000 (including overseas departments )[ 1] United States 10,329,000:-)(includes ancestry):-)[ 3] Canada 9,167,000:-) (includes ancestry)[ 4] Argentina 3,000,000:-)(includes ancestry)[ 5] Brazil 2,000,000:-) (includes ancestry)[ 6] Chile 800,000:-) (includes ancestry)[ 7] United Kingdom 300,000[ 8] Germany 160,000 (French citizens)[ 9] Switzerland 159,000[ 10] [ 11] Madagascar 124,000[ 12] Belgium 123,000[ 13] Spain 122,000[ 14] Australia 118,000[ 15] [ 16]
Other countries
Portugal 92,000[ 17] Israel 41,000[ 17] Thailand 40,000[ 18] [ 19] Italy 33,368[ 20] Algeria 32,000[ 10] China 31,000[ 10] Luxembourg 31,000[ 10] [ 21] Mexico 30,000[ 22] Poland 27,000[ 17] Hong Kong 25,000[ 23] Netherlands 23,000[ 10] Senegal 20,000[ 10] Mauritius 15,000[ 24] Ireland 12,000[ 17] Monaco 10,000[ 25] Sweden 9,000[ 26] Austria 8,000[ 27] Denmark 8,000[ 17] Romania 5,000[ 17] New Zealand 5,000[ 17] [ 28] Malaysia 4,000[ 29]
Primarily French andother Romance languages
Regional languages Mainly Christianity (predominantly Catholic [ 30] with Protestant and Eastern Orthodox minorities)Islam and other religions[ 31]
Irreligion [ 32]
The term French people (French : les Français , [the French ]) refers to both an ethnic group in Western Europe and the citizens of France . There are about 100 million French people in the world.
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