Editing German diaspora (section)

=== North America ===
{{see|German Americans|German Canadians|German Mexicans}}
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| caption1  = Counties where German ancestry (light blue) is the plurality in the United States, 2000
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}}In the United States are ca. 160,000 German Citizens Registered.
* [[Belize]]: 5,763 [[Mennonite]] Low-German speakers.
* Canada (3.3 million, 9,6% of the population), see also [[German Canadian]]s.
* Mexico: See [[German immigration to Mexico]], 22% of Mennonites also speak Low German which is not Standard German but derived from Old Saxon, 30% speak Spanish, 5% speak English and 5% speak Russian as a second language.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&dq=Menno+colony+in+Mexico&pg=RA1-PA94 International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-Volume Set, Volumen 1] Page 94</ref> Sources estimate that there are around 15,000 German citizens and Mexicans of German-citizen origin account for about 75,000 today.<ref name=Kopp>Horst Kopp [https://books.google.com/books?id=GJadNj49S-wC&dq=Mexico+german&pg=PA318 Area Studies, Business and Culture: Results of the Bavarian Research Network Forarea] (2003)</ref> Also of note, the 'Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt', or Alexander von Humboldt school in Mexico City is the largest German school outside Germany.
* In the United States, [[German American|"German"]] has been the largest self-identified ancestry group since 1990. There are around 50 million [[German American|Americans of at least partial German ancestry]] in the United States, or 17% of the U.S. population, the country's largest self-reported ancestral group.<ref>From [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR:535&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=true&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-geo_id=NBSP&-format=&-_lang=en Census Bureau, "S0201. Selected Population Profile in the United States" 2006-2008 data]  {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200210231621/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR:535&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=true&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-geo_id=NBSP&-format=&-_lang=en |date=10 February 2020 }}</ref> including various groups such as the [[Pennsylvania Dutch]]. Of these, 23 million are of German ancestry alone ("single ancestry"), and another 27 million are of partial German ancestry, making them the largest group in the United States, followed by the Irish. Of those who claim partial ancestry, 22 million identify their primary ancestry ("first ancestry") as German. The 22 million Americans of primarily German ancestry are by far the largest part of the German diaspora, a figure equal to over a quarter of the population of Germany itself. Germans form just under half the population in the [[Upper Midwest]].<ref>[http://home.earthlink.net/~tricentennialfoundation/census.html Who's Counting? The 1990 Census of German-Americans] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041009202528/http://home.earthlink.net/~tricentennialfoundation/census.html |date=9 October 2004 }}. On the site of The Tricentennial Foundation German American Community Service. Accessed 12 February 2006.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990902203620/http://www.census.gov/statab/USA98/dd-an.txt Contents of ANCESTRY Table] on the site of the [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed 12 February 2006.</ref>
* [[Central America]]: In 1940, there were 16,000 Germans living in Central America; half of them in [[Guatemala]], and most of the remainder were established in [[Costa Rica]].<ref name=Schoonover>{{cite book |title=Hitler's Man in Havana: Heinz Luning and Nazi Espionage in Latin America |date=2008 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=United States of America |isbn=978-0-8131-2501-5 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CojTWMNxso4C&q=Paraguay%20Chile%20Argentina%20German%20migration%20South%20America&pg=PA35 |author=Thomas Schoonover |access-date=27 May 2014}}</ref>