Editing Friesland (section)

==Demography==
In 2023, Friesland had a [[population]] of 659,551 and a [[population density]] of {{cvt|197|/km2|/sqmi}}.

The years 1880–1900 show slower [[population growth]] due to an [[agricultural recession]] during which some 20,000 Frisians [[emigration|emigrated]] to the [[United States]].<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.11en30.nu/de-canon-vensters/naar-het-lan-fan-dream-en-winsken?language=ned Emigration to the United States] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512225540/http://www.11en30.nu/de-canon-vensters/naar-het-lan-fan-dream-en-winsken?language=ned |date=12 May 2014 }}.</ref>

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|+ '''Historical population of Friesland'''<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20060208040725/http://www2.tresoar.nl/bs/Inwoners%20Friesland.pdf Overzicht aantal inwoners Provincie Friesland 1714–2000], [[Tresoar]].</ref><ref name=bevolking>{{in lang|nl}} [http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?DM=SLNL&PA=03759ned&D1=0,3,6,9,12&D2=129-132&D3=6,20-22&D4=(l-1)-l&VW=T Bevolking; geslacht, leeftijd, burgerlijke staat en regio, 1 januari] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812102300/http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?DM=SLNL&PA=03759ned&D1=0,3,6,9,12&D2=129-132&D3=6,20-22&D4=(l-1)-l&VW=T |date=12 August 2011 }}, [[Statistics Netherlands]], 2014.</ref>
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===Anthropometry===
Since the late Middle Ages, Friesland has been renowned for the exceptional height of its inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/968246572 |title=The encyclopedia of Medieval literature in Britain |date=2017 |others=Siân Echard, Robert Allen Rouse, Jacqueline A. Fay, Helen Fulton, Geoff Rector |isbn=978-1-118-39695-7 |location=Hoboken |oclc=968246572}}</ref> Even early Renaissance poet [[Dante Alighieri]] refers to the height of [[Frisians]] in his ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' when, in the canticle about [[Hell]], he talks about the magnitude of an infernal demon by stating that "not even three tall Frieslanders, were they set one upon the other, would have matched his height".<ref>Alighieri, Dante. ''Divine Comedy'', "Inferno", Canto 31, line 64, in ''The Portable Dante'', ed. Paolo Milano, trans. Laurence Binyon, Penguin, 1975 {{ISBN|0-14-015032-3}}</ref>