Poles

Poles
Polacy
The Baptism of Poland. Detail from Jan Matejko's Christianisation of Poland AD 966.
Total population
c. 60 million
Regions with significant populations
 Poland   38,000,000
   United States10,600,000
   Brazil3,000,000
   Germany2,850,000
 Israel1,250,000 (ancestry, passport eligible); 202,300 (citizenship)
   Canada1,010,705
   France1,000,000
Other countries
   United Kingdom911,000
   Argentina500,000
   Belarus295,000
   Russia273,000
   Australia216,056
   Lithuania164,000
   Ukraine144,130
   Ireland122,515
   Norway120,000
   Italy109,018
   Sweden75,323
   Belgium70,600
   Spain70,606
   Austria69,898
   Netherlands60,000
   Latvia44,783
   Denmark37,876
   Kazakhstan34,057
   South Africa30,000
   Czech Republic20,305
   Paraguay16,748
   United Arab Emirates14,500
   Greece14,145
   Iceland10,540
   Venezuela9,000
   Peru7,000
   Hungary5,730
   Moldova4,174
   Romania3,671
   Slovakia3,084
   Finland3,000
   New Zealand2,166
   Estonia1,747
Languages
Polish • Kashubian • Silesian
Religion
Christianity: Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Other West Slavs: Silesians, Kashubs, Czechs, Slovaks, Moravians, Sorbs, Hanoverian Wends(†), Obotrites(†), Veleti(†)

The Polish people, or Poles (Polish: Polacy, singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine:: Polka) are a Slavic nation native to Poland, they are bounded by the Polish language also known as the Lechitic language (notice the pre-Christian name of Poland was Lechia). Polish belongs to the groups of West Slavic of Central Europe, Poland is a Christian country, and Roman Catholic denomination is a principal and dominant. They use modified Latin alphabet.

There are about 60 million Poles in the world. Besides Poland, many live in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and elsewhere.

The most famous Poles are Pope John Paul II, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Nicolaus Copernicus and Lech Wałęsa.

Polish surnames often end with "-ski", "-ska", "-cki" "-cka", „-wicz”, „-dzki”, „-dzika”.

The most popular Polish surnames are Nowak and Kowalski.

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