Hungarians
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| c. 14.5 million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hungary 9,632,744 Carpathian Basin 11,425,000 (2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hungarian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Majority: Christianity (mostly Roman Catholicism), also Protestantism (Calvinism) Minority: Protestantism (Unitarianism and Lutheranism), Eastern Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, irreligious | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Person | Magyar |
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| People | Magyarok |
| Language | Magyar nyelv, Magyar jelnyelv |
| Country | Magyarország |
Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország), who share a common culture, language and history. They also have a notable presence in former parts of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Hungarian language belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, alongside the Khanty and Mansi languages.
There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. About 2 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. In addition, significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina, and therefore constitute the Hungarian diaspora (Hungarian: magyar diaszpóra).
Furthermore, Hungarians can be divided into several subgroups according to local linguistic and cultural characteristics; subgroups with distinct identities include the Székelys (in eastern Transylvania as well as a few in Suceava County, Bukovina), the Csángós (in Western Moldavia), the Palóc, and the Matyó.