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Norwegians (Norwegian: Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population. They share a common culture and speak the Norwegian language . Norwegians are descended from the Norse of the Early Middle Ages who formed a unified Kingdom of Norway in the 9th century.
Romani (Gypsies): approximately 4 or 10 million (although estimates vary widely), dispersed throughout Europe but with large numbers concentrated in the Balkans area, they are of ancestral South Asian and European descent, [62] originating from the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent.
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents in per cent of total population Total 877 227 213 810 16.0 3.9 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 378 076 51 274 6.9 0.9 Europe except EU/EFTA and UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 499 150 162 535
Category: Norwegian people of Asian descent. 4 languages. ... Norwegian people of Indian descent (3 C, 13 P) Norwegian people of Iranian descent (2 C, 10 P)
A Norwegian diaspora is present in the country, a large number of them being Norwegians of Pakistani descent. [19] Up to 4,000 Norwegian citizens live in Pakistan. [20] The town of Kharian in Gujrat district of Punjab is known as "Little Norway", as the majority of Pakistani-Norwegians hail from this area and many of them have resettled here.
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 ...
According to scholar Daniel Judah Elazar, "It was the Norwegian diaspora in the United States which initiated the separation of Norway from Sweden, which led to Norwegian independence in 1905." [ 6 ] The Norwegian-American community overwhelmingly favored independence of Norway from Sweden, and collecting money for Norwegian rifle clubs in case ...
Norwegian people of Punjabi descent (5 P) Pages in category "Norwegian people of Indian descent" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.