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Slovaks
Total population:6 million (est.)
Significant populations in:Slovakia:
   4,600,000 (est.)
United States:
   800,000 - 1,200,000
Canada:
   100,000
Czech Republic:
   200,000 est.
Latin America:
   30,000 (est.)
Serbia:
   56,600 est.
Hungary:
   60,000 (est.)
Other:
   120,000 (est.)
Language:Slovak
Religion:Predominantly Catholic. A small minority practice Protestantism and other faiths. Some Slovaks have atheistic or agnostic beliefs.
Related ethnic groups:Indo-Europeans
  Slavs
    West Slavs

The Slovaks are a western Slavic Ethnic group that primarily inhabits Slovakia and speaks the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.

There are approximately 4.6 million autochthonous Slovaks in Slovakia. Further Slovaks live in the following countries (the list shows estimates of embassies etc. and of associations of Slovaks abroad in the first place, and official data of the countries as of 2000/2001 in the second place):

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The number of Slovaks living outside Slovakia in line with the above data was estimated at max. 2 016 000 in 2001 (2 660 000 in 1991), implying that, in sum, there were max. some 6 630 854 Slovaks in 2001 (7 180 000 in 1991) in the world.

The estimate according to the right-hand site chart yields an approximate number of Slovaks living outside Slovakia of 1.5 million.

See also