Vietnamese people in France
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Vietnamese people in France (Vietnamese: Người Pháp gốc Việt; French: Diaspora vietnamienne en France) consist of people of full or partial Vietnamese ancestry who were born in or immigrated to France. Their population was about 400,000 as of 2017, making them one of the largest Asian communities in the country.
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Total population | |
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~400,000 (2017)[1] 0.61% of the French population | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Paris and Île-de-France region, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux | |
Languages | |
French (standard and Vietnamese dialect), Vietnamese | |
Religion | |
Vietnamese folk religion, Mahayana Buddhism with elements of Confucianism and Taoism; significant minority Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Overseas Vietnamese, Asians in France |
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Unlike other overseas Vietnamese communities in the West, the Vietnamese population in France had already been well-established before the Fall of Saigon and the resulting diaspora. They make up over half of the Vietnamese population in Europe.[2]