Poles
West Slavic ethnic group
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Summary
Poles is an ethnic group[1]. They ranks in the top 2% of ethnic group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,963 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Native language: Polish[3]
- Religion or worldview: Catholicism[4], Eastern Orthodoxy[5], Protestantism[6]
- Country: Poland[7], United States[8], Germany[9], Brazil[10], France[11], Canada[12], United Kingdom[13], Belarus[14], Lithuania[15], Ukraine[16], Sweden[17], Norway[18], Russia[19], Latvia[20]
- Instance of: people[21]
- Subclass of: West Slavs[22], Lechites[23]
- Commons category: People of Poland[24]
- Has part(s): Gorals[25], Silesians[26], Masurians[27], Kashubians[28], Lachy Sądeckie[29], Lemkos[30]
- Inception: 1000[31]
- Topic's main category: Category:Polish people[32]
- Population: 55,000,000[33]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[34], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[35]
- Languages spoken, written or signed: Polish[36]
- Native label: Polacy[37]
- Different from: Poles[38], pole[39], Polaco[40]
- Female form of label: Polin[41], полька[42], Polka[43], poloneză[44], Polki[45], بولندية[46]
- Studied by: Polish studies[47]
- Language used: Polish[48]
- Male form of label: поляк[49], Polák[50], polonez[51], Polacy[52], بولندي[53], пољак[54], poljak[55]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Ukraine[56]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for Poles include Polakowice[57], a village of Poland[58], in Poland[59].
Why It Matters
Poles has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[60] They is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[61]
Entities named for them include Polakowice[57], a village of Poland[58], in Poland[59].