Editing Franconia (section)

===Population===
A large portion of the roughly five million<ref>Based on the combined populations of the provinces of Middle, Upper and Lower Franconia in Bavaria as well as the counties of South Thuringia and Tauber Franconia.</ref> inhabitants of Franconia consider themselves Franconians ({{lang|de|Franken}}, in German homonymous with the name of the historical [[Franks]]), a sub-ethnic group of the [[German people]] alongside [[Alemanni]], [[Swabians]], [[Bavarians]], [[Thuringians]] and [[Saxons]]. Such an ethnic identity is generally not shared by speakers of Central Franconian, Low Franconian, Rhenish Franconian or South Franconian, some of whom may identify as Rhine Franconians (''Rheinfranken'') or Moselle Franconians (''Moselfranken'').

The [[Free State of Bavaria]] counts Franconians as one of the "four tribes of Bavaria" (''vier Stämme Bayerns''), alongside Bavarians, Swabians and [[Sudeten Germans]].<ref>[http://www.bayern.de/Menschen-in-Bayern-.2549.4448573/index.htm ''Das Land Bayern: Menschen in Bayern - Tradition und Zukunft''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325102318/http://www.bayern.de/Menschen-in-Bayern-.2549.4448573/index.htm |date=25 March 2014}}: www.bayern.de, Bayerisches Landesportal. Accessed 15 September 2022.</ref>