Regions with significant populations | |
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Sicily 4,833,329 (inhabitants of Sicily)[1] | |
Diaspora | |
United States (of Sicilian ancestry) | ≈14,510,000[2][3] |
Australia (of Sicilian ancestry) | ≈200,000[4] |
Germany | 199,546[5] |
Belgium | 89,581[5] |
Switzerland | 64,456[5] |
Argentina | 61,621[5] |
France | 60,520[5] |
Languages | |
Native Sicilian Primarily Italian | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Roman Catholicism (Latin and Byzantine Rite) Minority Greek Orthodox, Judaism, Irreligion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Italians, Greeks, Normans, Calabrians, Arbëreshë, Other people of the Mediterranean Sea |
The Sicilians (Sicilian: Siciliani), or Sicilian people, are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group who are indigenous to the island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy.
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