Portuguese in the Netherlands

Portuguese in the Netherlands
Total population
24,242 (2015) CBS Statline
Regions with significant populations
Netherlands
Languages
Portuguese, Dutch
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Other Portuguese people

Portuguese in the Netherlands (also known as Portuguese Dutch or the Dutch Portuguese Community) are the citizens or residents of the Netherlands whose ethnic origins lie in Portugal.

Demographics

Portuguese Dutch are Portuguese-born citizens with a Dutch citizenship or Dutch-born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship.

Portuguese arrived to the Netherlands in the early and middle 18th century, as immigrants, mostly from Madeira Island and Lisbon. Over 20,000 of Dutch people claim that they are of Portuguese descent.

Notable people

Ethnic and national groups in the Netherlands

Netherlands

Africa

Americas

Asia

East Asia	Chinese Japanese Koreans

South Asia	Afghans Indians Nepalis Pakistanis

South-East Asia	Filipinos Indonesians Indo people Vietnamese

West Asia	Arabs Iraqis Armenians Assyrians Iranians Kurds Turkish Yazidis

Europe

Bold denotes ethnic groups that (partly) originate from within contemporary and historic parts of the Netherlands

Portuguese diaspora

Africa	Angola Mozambique South Africa

Americas	Argentina Brazil Canada Guyana Jamaica Mexico Suriname United States Uruguay Venezuela

Asia	India Indonesia (Mardijker) Macau Malaysia Pakistan Sri Lanka

Europe	France Luxembourg Netherlands United Kingdom

Oceania	Australia New Zealand

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