Euronesian
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Total population | |
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(258,600[1]) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
United States 125,628 [1]
French Polynesia 44,000 New Caledonia 25,000 Samoa 18,000 Solomon Islands 18,000 Fiji 16,000 Papua New Guinea 5,100 American Samoa 4,700 Kiribati 1,100 Cook Islands 1,000 Smaller populations in Pitcairn Islands, New Zealand and Australia. |
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Languages | |
English, French, Polynesian languages, others. | |
Religion | |
Protestantism, Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Māori, Fijians, Polynesians, English people, French people, Spaniards, Pākehā, Germans, People of the U.S.A., Danish people |
Euronesian refers to any person of mixed European and Polynesian,[2] Melanesian or Micronesian descent. It is most commonly used in Samoa. Most Euronesians are descended from British or French people and Polynesians (in Samoa itself often from German people), with some from Spaniards and Polynesians in Isla de Pascua and from Spaniards and Micronesians in Guam, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau.