Editing Croats (section)

==Communities==

In Croatia (the [[nation state]]), 3.9&nbsp;million people identify themselves as Croats and constitute about 90.4% of the population. Another 553,000 live in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], where they are one of the three [[Nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina|constituent ethnic groups]], predominantly living in Western [[Herzegovina]], [[Central Bosnia]] and [[Bosnian Posavina]]. The minority in [[Serbia]] number about 70,000, mostly in [[Vojvodina]],<ref name=":0">[http://www.vojvodina.gov.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=68 Влада Аутономне Покрајине Војводине] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021933/http://www.vojvodina.gov.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=68 |date=29 November 2014 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/en/popis.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422161446/http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/en/popis.htm|title=Republicki Zavod za Statistiku – Republike Srbije|archive-date=22 April 2009}}</ref> where also vast majority of the [[Šokci]] consider themselves Croats, as well as many [[Bunjevci]] (the latter, as well as other nationalities, settled the vast, abandoned area after the Ottoman retreat; this Croat subgroup originates from the south, mostly from the region of [[Bačka]]). Smaller Croat autochthonous minorities exist in [[Slovenia]] (mainly in [[Slovene Littoral]], [[Prekmurje]] and in the [[Metlika]] area in [[Lower Carniola]] regions – 35,000 [[Croats of Slovenia|Croats]]), [[Montenegro]] (mostly in the [[Bay of Kotor]] – 6,800 [[Croats of Montenegro|Croats]]), and a regional community in [[Kosovo]] called [[Janjevci]] who nationally identify as Croats. In the 1991 census, Croats consisted 19.8% of the overall population of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]; there were around 4.6&nbsp;million Croats in the entire country.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}

The subgroups of Croats are commonly based on [[Regions of Croatia|regional]] affiliation, like Dalmatians, Slavonians, Zagorci, Istrians etc., while inside and outside Croatia there exist several Croatian sub-ethnic groups: [[Šokci]] (Croatia, Serbia, Hungary), [[Bunjevci]] (Croatia, Serbia, Hungary), [[Burgenland Croats]] (Austria), [[Molise Croats]] (Italy), [[Croats of Boka Kotorska|Bokelji]] (Montenegro), [[Croats of Hungary|Raci]] (Hungary), [[Krashovani]] (Romania), and [[Janjevci]] (Kosovo).

===Autochthonous communities===
* Croatia is the [[nation-state]] of Croats.
* In [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], Croats are one of three [[Ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina|constitute ethnic groups]], numbering around 544,780 people or 15.43% of the population. The entity of [[Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] is home to the majority (495,000 or about little under 90%) of [[Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian and Herzegovinian Croats]].
* In [[Montenegro]], the [[Bay of Kotor]], [[Croats of Montenegro|Croats]] are a national minority, numbering 6,021 people or 0.97% of the population.
* In [[Serbia]], [[Croats of Serbia|Croats]] are a national minority, numbering 57,900 people or 0.80% of the population. They mostly live in the region of [[Vojvodina]], where Croatian is official (along with five other languages), and the national capital city of [[Belgrade]].
* In [[Slovenia]], [[Croats of Slovenia|Croats]] are not recognized as a minority, numbering 35,642 people or 1.81% of the population. They mostly live in [[Slovene Littoral]], [[Prekmurje]] and in the [[Metlika]] area in [[Lower Carniola]] regions.

===Croatian communities with minority status===
* In Austria, Croats are an ethnic minority, numbering around 30,000 people in [[Burgenland]] ([[Burgenland Croats]]), the eastern part of Austria,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.croates.at/haupt/gesch_fr.htm |title=HKDC Geschichte – Frame |publisher=Croates.at |access-date=21 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422063545/http://www.croates.at/haupt/gesch_fr.htm |archive-date=22 April 2008}}</ref> and around 15,000 people in the capital city of [[Vienna]].
* In the [[Czech Republic]], [[Croats in the Czech Republic|Croats]] are a national minority, numbering 850–2,000 people, forming a portion of the 29% minority (as "Others"). They mostly live in the region of [[Moravia]], in the villages of [[Jevišovka]], [[Dobré Pole]] and [[Nový Přerov]].
* In Hungary, [[Croats of Hungary|Croats]] are an ethnic minority, numbering 25,730 people or 0.26% of the population.<ref>[http://www.nepszamlalas.hu/eng/volumes/06/00/tabeng/1/load01_10_0.html Hungarian Central Statistical Office] Population by national/ethnic groups  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414085041/http://www.nepszamlalas.hu/eng/volumes/06/00/tabeng/1/load01_10_0.html |date=14 April 2011 }}</ref>
* In Italy, [[Croats of Italy|Croats]] are a [[Molise Croatian|linguistic]], and ethnic minority, numbering 23,880 people, of which 2,801 people belong to the ethnic minority of [[Molise Croats]] from the region of [[Molise]].
* In Romania, [[Croats of Romania|Croats]] are a national minority, numbering 6,786 people. They mostly live in the [[Caraș-Severin County]], in [[communes of Romania|communes]] of [[Lupac]] (90.7%) and [[Carașova]] (78.28%).
* In [[Serbia]], [[Croats of Serbia|Croats]] (including [[Bunjevci]] and [[Šokci]]) are a national minority. They mostly live in the multiethnic autonomous province of [[Vojvodina]].
* In [[Slovakia]], [[Croats in Slovakia|Croats]] are an ethnic and national minority, numbering around 850 people. They mostly live in the area around [[Bratislava]], in the villages of [[Chorvátsky Grob]], [[Čunovo]], [[Devínska Nová Ves]], [[Rusovce]] and [[Jarovce]].

===Other regions with Croat minorities===
* In [[Bulgaria]], there exists a small Croatian community, a branch of [[Janjevci]], Croats from [[Kosovo]].
* In New Zealand, the mixed Croatian and Māori [[Tarara (Māori Croatian ethnic mix)|Tarara]] people have their own culture, traditions and customs, and live in [[Northland Region|Te Tai Tokerau]], New Zealand's northernmost region. 15 March is [[Tarara Day]] to celebrate their heritage.
* In Kosovo, Croats or Janjevci (Letničani), as they inhabited mostly the town of [[Janjevo]], before 1991 numbered 8,062 people, but after the war many fled, and {{As of|2011|lc=y}} number only 270 people.
* In [[North Macedonia]], [[Croats in North Macedonia|Croats]] number 2,686 people or 0.1% of the population, mostly living in the capital city of [[Skopje]], the city of [[Bitola]] and around the [[Lake Ohrid]].

===Diaspora===
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{{Main|Croatian diaspora}}
[[File:Croatian Embassy in Canberra.JPG|thumb|255px|right|Croatian Embassy in [[Canberra]], Australia]]
There are currently 4–4.5&nbsp;million Croats in [[diaspora]] throughout the world. The Croat diaspora was the consequence of either mostly economic or political ([[coercion]] or expulsions) reasons:
* To other European countries ([[Croats of Slovenia|Slovenia]], [[Croats of Italy|Italy]], [[Croatians in Austria|Austria]], [[Croats in Slovakia|Slovakia]], [[Croats in Germany|Germany]], [[Croats of Hungary|Hungary]]), caused by the conquering of [[Ottoman Turks]], when Croats as Roman Catholics [[Persecution of Christians#Ottoman Empire|were oppressed]].
* To the Americas (largely to [[Croatian Canadians|Canada]], the [[Croatian Americans|United States of America]], [[Croatian Chileans|Chile]], and [[Croatian Argentines|Argentina]], with smaller communities in [[Croatian Uruguayans|Uruguay]], [[Croatian Brazilians|Brazil]], [[Croatian Peruvians|Peru]], [[Croatian Colombians|Colombia]], and [[Croatian Ecuadorians|Ecuador]]) in the end of 19th and early 20th century, large numbers of Croats emigrated particularly for economic reasons.
* To New Zealand, predominately the [[Northland Region]], to work on [[Kauri gum]] plantations.<ref name="voxy.co.nz"/>
* A further, larger wave of emigration, this time for political reasons, took place after the end of the [[World War II in Yugoslavia]]. At this time, both collaborators of the [[Ustaše|Ustasha]] regime and those who did not want to live under a [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|communist]] regime fled the country, to the Americas and [[Oceania]] once more.
* As immigrant workers, particularly to Germany, Austria, and [[Croats of Switzerland|Switzerland]] in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, some [[emigrants]] left for political reasons. This migration made it possible for communist [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] to achieve lower unemployment and at the same time the money sent home by emigrants to their families provided an enormous source of foreign exchange income.
* The last large wave of Croat emigration occurred during and after the [[Yugoslav Wars]] (1991–1995). Migrant communities already established in the Americas, Oceania, and across Europe grew as a result.

The count for diaspora is approximate because of incomplete statistical records and [[naturalization]]. Overseas, the United States contains the largest [[Croatian Americans|Croatian emigrant group]] (414,714 according to the 2010 census), mostly in [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Illinois]] and [[California]], with a sizable community in [[Alaska]], followed by [[Croatian Australians|Australia]] (133,268 according to the 2016 census, with concentrations in [[Sydney]], [[Melbourne]] and [[Perth]]) and Canada (133,965 according to the 2016 census, mainly in [[Southern Ontario]], [[British Columbia]] and [[Alberta]]).

Various estimations put the total number of Americans and Canadians with at least some Croatian ancestry at 2 million, many of whom do not identify as such in the countries' censuses.<ref name="Farkas"/><ref name="Paquin"/><ref name="Directory of Historical Organizatio"/><ref name="Zanger"/><ref name="Levinson, Ember"/><ref>{{cite book|page=690|title=Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1994: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations|year=1993|publisher=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs}}</ref><ref name="National Genealogical Inquirer"/><ref name="Croats in North and South America">{{cite web|url=http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici/iseljenici01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304011728/http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici/iseljenici01.html|archive-date=2007-03-04|title=HIA – iseljenici|website=Hia.com.hr|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref>

Croats have also emigrated in several waves to South America: chiefly [[Croatian Chileans|Chile]], [[Croatian Argentines|Argentina]], and [[Croatian Brazilians|Brazil]]; estimates of their number vary wildly, from 150,000 up to 500,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.matis.hr/vijesti.php?id=398|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311054547/http://www.matis.hr/vijesti.php?id=398|publisher =[[Croatian Heritage Foundation]]|author=Većeslav Holjevac|title=In his book Hrvati izvan domovine estimates the number of Croatian emigrants in South America at 180,000 in 1932.|archive-date=11 March 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304010544/http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici01.html|work=Croatian Emigrant Adresary|title=The Croatian Emigrant Adresary places the total number of Croats in South America as high as 500,000|archive-date=4 March 2007}}</ref> Both the presidents of Chile ([[Gabriel Boric]]) and Argentina ([[Javier Milei]]) are of Croatian descent.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 November 2021 |title=Chilean Politician of Croatian Origin Runs for Presidency |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/05/chilean-politician-of-croatian-origin-runs-for-presidency/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531060823/https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/05/chilean-politician-of-croatian-origin-runs-for-presidency/ |archive-date=31 May 2022 |access-date=19 December 2021 |website=Balkan Insight}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=22 November 2023 |title=Rodrigo Lussich reveló qué lazo familiar lo une a Javier Milei y sorprendió a todos |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/rodrigo-lussich-sorprendio-a-todos-y-revelo-el-lazo-familiar-que-lo-une-con-javier-milei-nid20112023/ |access-date=3 December 2023 |website=La Nación |language=es}}</ref>

There are also smaller groups of Croatian descendants in Brazil, [[Croatian Ecuadorians|Ecuador]], [[Croatian Peruvians|Peru]], South Africa, Mexico, and South Korea. The most important organizations of the Croatian [[diaspora]] are the [[Croatian Fraternal Union]], [[Croatian Heritage Foundation]] and the Croatian World Congress.
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