- Romanian diaspora
"Romanian diaspora" is a term that encompasses the total
ethnic Romanian population located outsideRomania andMoldova . The term does not usually count those ethnicRomanians living as natives in the states surrounding Romania, chiefly those Romanians living in Ukraine and Serbia. The numbers of the diaspora also counts people of Romanian ancestry born in the respective country. Fact|date=February 2007 The number of all Romanians abroad is estimated at about 4-12 million people, depending on one's definition of the term "Romanian". In2006 , the Romanian diaspora was estimated at about 8 million people by the president of Romania,Traian Băsescu , most of them living in the formerUSSR ,Western Europe (esp.Spain andFrance , seeRomanian-French ),North America ,South America andAustralia . [ [http://www.presidency.ro/?_RID=det&tb=date&id=7048&_PRID= Preşedintele României ] ] It is unclear if Băsescu included the Romanians living in the immediate surroundings of the Romanian state. It is also unclear if Băsescu countedJew ish-Romanians, ethnicHungarians who are native to Northern Romania, also known as "Csángó " or "Szeklers " andTransylvanian Saxons of ethnic German origins as Romanians when he made his estimate, as well as third-generation individuals in theUnited States andCanada .Below is a list of ethnic
Romanians living throughout the world, they are found living in all six continents, excluding those who live in states aroundRomania , where the figures are estimated to be around 4 million people. There are ethnic Romanians inTurkey , both inAsia n andEurope an parts of the country, descendants ofWalachia n settlers invited by theOttoman Empire from the early 14th to the late 19th centuries. Over 100,000 ethnic Romanians are living throughout far easternRussia , thousands of Moldovan-Romanians in villages of theAmur River valley in the ChineseManchuria n side of that river, and about 2,000 Romanian immigrants inJapan since the late 20th century. Fact|date=February 2007Distribution by country
Note: the table below contains a list of the estimated numbers of persons originating from Romania, many of which are actually ethnic Germans, Hungarians, Jews. there are no statistics regarding the ethnicity of the former Romanian citizens.
During the communist era, hundreds of thousands of Germans and Hungarians have immigrated to the west, especially to Germany, Hungary, Austria, Sweden and the USA, while the Jewish population hasmostly immigrated to Israel and the United States.
Italy and Spain have the largest populations of ethnic Romanians in Europe. Migration to this countries has happened mostly around the end of the 20th century.
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