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While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
[186] [218] Descendants of immigrants are excluded (Portugal, like many European countries, does not collect data on ethnicity) and those who, regardless of place of birth or citizenship at birth, were Portuguese citizens. Some 100,000 Muslims [219] [220] and 5,000–6,000 Jews (mostly Sephardi such as the Belmonte Jews, and Ashkenazi). [221 ...
Portugal is also home to about 17,000 Buddhists, [75] mostly Chinese from Macau and a few Indians from Goa. Portugal is still one of the most religious countries in Europe, most Portuguese believe with certainty in the Existence of God and religion plays an important role in the life of most Portuguese.
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991 [needs update]. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.
Ethnic groups in Asia (44 C, 36 P) E. ... Ethnic groups in North America (26 C, 5 P) O. Ethnic groups in Oceania (38 C, 10 P) S. Ethnic groups in South America (32 C ...
Luso-Asians arrived at ports in Europe, North America, Brazil [34] and the Atlantic coasts of Africa. Portuguese ruler and soldiers mounting an Elephant in Myanmar. The dispersal of Luso-Asians occurred very early after the contact between Portugal and the late medieval nations of Asia.
Linguistic map of Latin America. Spanish in green, Portuguese in orange, and French in blue. Spanish and Portuguese are the predominant languages of Latin America. Spanish is the official language of most of the countries on the Latin American mainland, as well as in Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), Cuba and the Dominican ...