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By taking the total of all people with full Dutch ancestry, according to the current CBS definition (both parents born in the Netherlands), resulting in an estimated 16,000,000 Dutch people, [note 1] or by the sum of all people worldwide with both full and partial Dutch ancestry, which would result in a number around 33,000,000.
Afro-Dutch or Black Dutch people are Dutch people who are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Afro-Dutch in the continental Netherlands are Afro-Caribbean and hail from the former and present Dutch overseas territories Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles; now Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
Hottentot (English and German language / ˈ h ɒ t ən ˌ t ɒ t / HOT-ən-TOT) is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa. Use of the term Hottentot is now considered offensive, the preferred name for the non Bantu speaking indigenous people of the Western ...
As a result, by 1691 over a quarter of the white population of South Africa was not ethnically Dutch. [8] The number of permanent settlers of both sexes and all ages, according to figures available at the onset of British rule, numbered 26,720, [8] of whom 50% were Dutch, 27% German, 17% French and 5.5% other. [42]
In addition, numerous immigrants and their descendants live in France, including from Europe (Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Romanians), North Africa (Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans), Sub-Saharan Africa (Congolese, Senegalese) Asia , Armenians, Jews and the French overseas territories. Around 15 to 20% of the population in 2000 were of non ...
Like the Boers they migrated inland from the Cape and in the 19th century established several states in what is now South Africa and Namibia. The Griqua consider themselves as being South Africa’s first multiracial nation with people descended directly from Dutch settlers in the Cape, and local peoples.
Most South Africans in the Netherlands are Afrikaners, a population group descended from Dutch (and to a lesser extent German and French) colonists who settled in the Cape Colony from 1652 onwards. There is also a smaller minority of Coloured South-Africans in the Netherlands, a multi-racial people group descending from various groups ...
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