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Regions with significant populations | |
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Sicily 4,833,329 (inhabitants of Sicily)[1] | |
Diaspora | |
United States (of Sicilian ancestry) | 68,290 (alone) or 85,175 (incl. combination) (2000)[2][3] |
Australia (of Sicilian ancestry) | Unknown[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 | |
Other Italians, Sicilian diaspora, Greeks, Normans, Calabrians, Arbëreshë, Other Southern Europeans |
Sicilians (Sicilian: Siciliani) are a European ethnic group who are indigenous to Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy.