Chinese people in Portugal
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 26,074 Includes foreign citizens only | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Lisbon | |
| Languages | |
| Chinese (primarily Wenzhounese and Mandarin among recent arrivals; Cantonese among established migrants), Portuguese | |
| Religion | |
| Mahayana Buddhism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique, other overseas Chinese groups |
| Chinese people in Portugal | |||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 葡萄牙華人 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 葡萄牙华人 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Portuguese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Portuguese | Chineses em Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese people in Portugal (Chinese: 葡萄牙華人, Cantonese Yale: pòuh tòuh ngàh wàh yàhn) form the country's largest Asian community, and the twelfth-largest foreign community overall. Despite forming only a small part of the overseas Chinese population in Europe, the Chinese community in Portugal is one of the continent's oldest due to the country's colonial and trade history with Macau dating back to the 16th century. There are about 30,000 people of Chinese descent residing in Portugal.