koreans

The Korean people are one of the main East Asian ethnic groups of Mongoloid stock. Most Koreans live in Korea (the Korean peninsula) and speak the Korean language. Korea's population is one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogeneous in the world, with the only minorities being very small Chinese communities in South and North Korea, and a very small Japanese one in North Korea.

colspan="3" bgcolor="#007FFF" \| Koreans
bgcolor="cyan" \| Total population:	bgcolor="azure" \| 74,616,714 (est.)
bgcolor="cyan" \| Significant populations in:	bgcolor="azure" \| South Korea: 47,470,969 North Korea: 21,687,550 United States: 2,057,546 China: 2,043,578 Japan: 660,214 Former Soviet Union: 486,857 Canada: 110,000 Latin America: 100,000
bgcolor="cyan" \| Language	bgcolor="azure" \| Korean speakers: 71 million
bgcolor="cyan" \| Religion	bgcolor="azure" \| Nonreligious, Christian, Buddhist, Indigenous, other
bgcolor="cyan" \| Related ethnic groups	bgcolor="azure" \| Possibly the Japanese, Manchurians, Mongolians.

According to recent estimates, the population of ethnic Koreans worldwide is:

North Korea: 21,687,550
South Korea: 47,470,969
United States: 2,057,546
China: 2,043,578
Japan: 660,214
Russia and former Soviet republics: 486,857
Canada : 110,000
Latin America (Brazil in particular): 100,000
Total: 74,616,714

Culture

Main article: Culture of Korea Koreans in both South Korea and North Korea share many cultural aspects, but the political distinctions between the two countries result in regional differences in culture between the North and South. There are around 70 million speakers of the Korean language worldwide.

Koreans in the United States

More than 2 million ethnic Koreans live in the U.S. The majority of Koreans in the U.S reside in the cities. They live and work in communities in cities such as: New York City, New York; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Houston, Texas.

Koreans in the former Soviet Union

Approximately 450,000 ethnic Koreans reside in the former USSR, primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia. There are also large Korean communities in southern Russia (around Volgograd), the Caucasus, and southern Ukraine. These communities can be traced back to the Koreans who were living in the Russian Far East. In 1937, Stalin deported approximately 200,000 ethnic Koreans to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, on the official premise that the Koreans might act as spies for Japan. There is also a separate ethnic Korean community in the Russian island of Sakhalin, where Koreans brought in by Japan as labourers were stranded after the island came into Soviet hands after World War II. As of January 1, 1998, 1,123,200 ethnic Koreans lived in Uzbekistan, amounting to 4.7% of the total country's population. Probably as a consequence of these ethnic ties, South Korea was the second import partner of Uzbekistan, after Russia, and one of its largest foreign investors. The car manufacturer Daewoo set up a joint venture (August 1992) and a factory in Asaka city, Andizhan province, in Uzbekistan. See also: Population transfer in the Soviet Union

Koreans in China

Koreans form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. It is considered one of the "major minorities". They mostly occupy the north of China, especially in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, where they numbered 854,000 in 1997.

Koreans in Japan

Koreans in Japan are also referred to as Zainichi. There are 528,904 Koreans in Japan, amounting to 40.4% of the non-Japanese population of the country. 75% of the Japanese Koreans are Japanese-born, but most are legal aliens nevertheless. See also: Ethnic issues in Japan

Koreans in other countries

Koreatowns can be found in New York (Koreatown, Manhattan) and Los Angeles with signs in Korean. There is also a Koreatown in London.

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