Slovaks

The Slovaks are a western Slavic ethnic group that primarily inhabits Slovakia and speaks the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.

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There are approximately 4.6 million autochthonous Slovaks in Slovakia. Further Slovaks live in the following countries (the list shows estimates of embassies etc. and of associations of Slovaks abroad in the first place, and official data of the countries as of 2000/2001 in the second place):

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• USA (1 200 000 / 821 325*) - 19th - 21st century emigrants; see also http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf
• Czech Republic (350 000 / 183 749*) - due to the existence of former Czechoslovakia
• Hungary (110 000 / 17 693*) - ancient minority
• Canada (100 000 / 50 860) - 19th - 21st century migrants
• Serbia and Montenegro (60 000 / 59 021*) - 18th & 19th century settlers
• Poland(2002)(47 000 / 2 000*) - ancient minority and due to border shifts during the 20th century
• Romania (18 000 / 17 199)- ancient minority
• Ukraine (17 000 / 6 397) - ancient minority and due to the existence of former Czechoslovakia
• France (13 000/ n.a.)
• Australia (12 000 / n.a.) - 20th - 21st century migrants
• Austria (10 234 / 10 234)- 20th - 21st century migrants
• Great Britain (10 000 / n.a.)
• Croatia (5 000 / 4 712) - 18th & 19th century settlers
• other countries

The number of Slovaks living outside Slovakia in line with the above data was estimated at max. 2 016 000 in 2001 (2 660 000 in 1991), implying that, in sum, there were max. some 6 630 854 Slovaks in 2001 (7 180 000 in 1991) in the world.

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The estimate according to the right-hand site chart yields an approximate number of Slovaks living outside Slovakia of 1.5 million.

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