Overseas Vietnamese

Overseas Vietnamese (Vietnamese: người Việt hải ngoại, Việt kiều or kiều bào) refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest community of whom live in the United States.

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Vietnamese diaspora

Việt kiều Người Việt hải ngoại
Total population
5,300,000 (official estimates)[1][2]
United States	2,183,000 (2019)[3]
Cambodia	400,000–1,000,000[4]
Japan	432,934 (2021)[5]
France	350,000–400,000[6][7][8]
Australia	334,781 (2021)[9]
Canada	240,514 (2016)[10]
Taiwan	215,491 (2022)[lower-alpha 1]
South Korea	208,000 (2021)[19]
Germany	188,000 (2019)[20]
Russia	13,954[21]–150,000[22]
Thailand	100,000[23][24]–500,000[25]
Laos	100,000[26]
United Kingdom	90,000[27]–100,000[28][29]
Malaysia	80,000[30]
Czech Republic	60,000–80,000[31]
Poland	40,000–50,000[31]
Angola	40,000[32][33]
Mainland China	36,205 (2010)[lower-alpha 2][34]–303,000 (2020)[35]/33,112 (2020)[36][lower-alpha 3]
Norway	28,114 (2022)[37]
Netherlands	24,594 (2021)[38]
Sweden	21,528 (2021)[39]
Macau	20,000 (2018)[40]
United Arab Emirates	20,000[41]
Saudi Arabia	20,000[42][43][44]
Slovakia	7,235[45]–20,000[46]
Denmark	16,141 (2022)[47]
Singapore	15,000[48]
Belgium	12,000–15,000[49]
Finland	13,291 (2021)[50]
Cyprus	12,000[51][52]
New Zealand	10,086 (2018)[53]
Switzerland	8,000[54]
Hungary	7,304 (2016)[55]
Ukraine	7,000[56][57]
Ireland	5,000[58]
Italy	1,575[59]
Austria	5,000[60][61]
Romania	3,000[62]
Bulgaria	2,500[63]
Languages
Vietnamese

Overseas Vietnamese make up the fifth largest Asian diaspora, after the Indian diaspora, Overseas Chinese, Overseas Filipinos and the Lebanese diaspora.

The term Việt Kiều 越僑 ("Vietnamese sojourner") is used by people in Vietnam to refer to Vietnamese living outside the country and is not a term of self-identification.[64] However, many overseas Vietnamese prefer the terms Người Việt hải ngoại ("Overseas Vietnamese") or Người Việt tự do ("free Vietnamese").[65]