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Finns

Also known as Finnish people

Finns or Finnish people (, ) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland. Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland, both those who are native to these countries as well as those who have resettled. Some of these may be classified as separate ethnic groups, rather than subgroups of Finns. These include the Kvens and Forest Finns in Norway, the Tornedalians in Sweden, and the Ingrian Finns in Russia.

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Finns are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland, traditionally organized into smaller regional communities. The term can also refer to Finnish-descended populations living in neighboring countries like Norway, Sweden, and Russia, though some of these groups are considered distinct ethnic groups in their own right.

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Key facts

Ethnic group.footnotes: The total figure is merely a sum of all the referenced populations listed. No official statistics are kept on ethnicity. However, statistics of the Finnish population according to first language and citizenship are documented and available. Finnish born population resident in Sweden. This figure likely includes all Finnish-born (regardless of ethnic background) and as such might be misleading. Swedish population with at least partial Finnish background.
Ethnic group.group: FinnsSuomalaiset
Ethnic group.pop: 6–7 million
Ethnic group.image: Map of the Finnish Diaspora in the World.svg
Ethnic group.regions: Finland 4.7–5.1 million
Ethnic group.region1: United States
Ethnic group.pop1: 653,222
Ethnic group.region2: Sweden
Ethnic group.pop2: 156,045–712,000
Ethnic group.region3: Canada
Ethnic group.pop3: 143,645
Ethnic group.region5: Russia
Ethnic group.pop5: 34,300
Ethnic group.region7: Australia
Ethnic group.pop7: 27,811
Ethnic group.region8: Norway
Ethnic group.pop8: 15,000–60,000
Ethnic group.region9: France

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Wikidata facts

Population: 6500000
Image: Map of the Finnish Diaspora in the World.svg

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Commons category: People of Finland
native label: suomalaiset

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Contents

Terminology
Etymology
History
Origins
Language
Livelihood
Religion
Subdivisions
Genetics
Theories of the origins of Finns
See also
Explanatory notes
References
External links

Finnish, the language spoken by Finns, is closely related to other Balto-Finnic languages such as Estonian and Karelian. The Finnic languages are a subgroup of the larger Uralic family of languages, which also includes Hungarian. These languages are markedly different from most other languages spoken in Europe, which belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Native Finns can also be divided according to dialect into subgroups sometimes called (), although such divisions have become less important due to internal migration.