Editing African diaspora (section)

== Populations and estimated distribution ==
African diaspora populations include:
* [[African Americans]], [[Afro-Caribbeans]], [[Afro-Latin Americans]], [[Black Canadians]] – descendants of mostly enslaved [[West Africa|West]] and [[Central Africa]]ns brought to the [[United States]], the [[Caribbean]], [[Central America]] and [[South America]] during the [[Atlantic slave trade]].
* [[Afro-Arabs]] ([[Afro-Saudis]], [[Afro-Omanis]], [[Afro-Syrians]], [[Afro-Palestinians]], [[Afro-Iraqis]], [[Afro-Jordanians]], etc.), [[Afro-Iranians]], [[Afro-Turks]] – descendants of [[Zanj]] slaves whose ancestors were brought to the [[Near East]] and other parts of Asia during the [[Indian Ocean slave trade]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6645-2004Jan10&notFound=true |title =A Legacy Hidden in Plain Sight|newspaper =The Washington Post|date=January 11, 2004|first = Theola |last =Labbż |url-status=dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110514025929/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6645-2004Jan10&notFound=true|archive-date = May 14, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Siddi]]s – descendants of [[Zanj]] slaves whose ancestors were brought to the [[Indian subcontinent]] ([[Pakistan]] and [[India]]). Also referred to as the Makrani in [[Pakistan]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Continent or region
! Country population
! Afro-descendants
! <ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html |title = The World Factbook> |publisher = cia.gov |access-date = February 22, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110220105711/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html |archive-date = February 20, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> African and African-mixed population
|-  style="background:#ccf;"
! [[Caribbean]]  || 41,309,327 || 67% || 27,654,061
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|  {{flagu|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}  || 39,619 || 98% || 38,827
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|  {{flagu|Dominica}} || 71,293 || 96% (87% African + 9% Mixed) || 61,882 + 9,411
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|  {{flagu|Haiti}} || 10,646,714 || 95% || 10,114,378 
|-
|  {{flagu|Antigua and Barbuda}}  || 78,000 || 95% ||  63,000
|-
|  {{flagu|Jamaica}}<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/jamaica/ Jamaica]. ''[[The World Factbook]]''. [[Central Intelligence Agency]].</ref> || 2,812,090 || 92.1% || 2,663,614 
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|  {{flagu|Grenada}}|| 110,000 || 91% || 101,309
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|  {{flagu|The Bahamas}} || 332,634 || 90.6% (African + British mixed)|| 301,366
|-
|  {{flagu|Barbados}} || 281,968 || 90% || 253,771
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|  {{flagu|Netherlands Antilles}}|| 225,369 || 85% || 191,564
|-
|  {{flagu|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}  || 118,432 || 85% ||  100,667
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|  {{flagu|British Virgin Islands}} || 24,004 || 83% || 19,923
|-
|  {{flagu|Saint Lucia}}  || 172,884 || 83% || 142,629
|-
|  {{flagu|Dominican Republic}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://countrystudies.us/dominican-republic/23.htm |website = Countrystudies.us |publisher= U.S. Library of Congress |title = Dominican Republic: Racial and Ethnic Groups }}</ref><ref name="Inter-American Dialogue">http://www.informaworld.com/index/902542287.pdf Inter-American Dialogue {{Dead link|date=April 2021}}</ref>|| 10,090,000 || 83% (11% Afro, 72% Mixed) || 1,109,900 + 8,000,000
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|  {{flagu|US Virgin Islands}} || 108,210 || 80% || 86,243
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|  {{flagu|Bermuda}}  || 66,536 || 61% || 40,720
|-
|  {{flagu|Cayman Islands}}  || 47,862 || 60% || 28,717
|-
|  {{flagu|Cuba}}<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cuba/ Cuba]. ''[[The World Factbook]]''. [[Central Intelligence Agency]].</ref> || 11,116,396 || 35% || 3,890,738
|-
|  {{flagu|Trinidad and Tobago}}<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/trinidad-and-tobago/ Trinidad and Tobago]. ''[[The World Factbook]]''. [[Central Intelligence Agency]].</ref>  || 1,215,527 || 34.2%    ||  415,710
|-
|  {{flagu|Puerto Rico}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/puerto-rico-population-change-between-census-decade.html |title=Puerto Rico: 2020 Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=April 7, 2022}}</ref> || 3,285,874 || 17.5% (African + Taino mixed)|| 558,598
|-  style="background:#ccf;"
! [[South America]] || 388,570,461 || N/A || N/A
|-
| {{flagu|French Guiana}} || 199,509 || 66% || 131,676
|-
|  {{flagu|Suriname}}  || 632,638 || 37% || 223,718
|-
|  {{flagu|Guyana}}  || 770,794 || 36% || 277,486
|-
|  {{flagu|Colombia}}<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/grupos-etnicos/informacion-tecnica|title = Colombia una nación multicultural: su diversidad étnica|language = es|website = dane.gov.co|access-date = November 6, 2021|archive-date = April 8, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200408132304/https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/grupos-etnicos/informacion-tecnica|url-status = dead}}</ref>||  53,093,632 || 10.6–25% (10% African, 15% Mulattoes, Mixed and other groups) || 7,800,000–13,000,000; <small>Some studies (from the United Nations) suggests that the percentage of Afro-Colombians (including mixed race groups) are around 25% or lower than the entire population in Colombia.  The city of [[Quibdo]], ([[Chocó department|Chocó]]){{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} has the highest percentage of Afro-Colombians than any other city in the country with 95.3% of its residents. The Colombian government estimates that 10.6% of Colombia's population are entirely of African descent.</small>
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| {{flagu|Brazil}}  || 213,650,000 || 55.5% || 117,983,981<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maioria da população do Brasil se declara parda |url=https://www.ufrn.br/imprensa/noticias/77639/maioria-da-populacao-do-brasil-se-declara-parda |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte |quote=<small>(Translated) The figures show that 45.3% of the population of the country declared themselves brown; 43.5% declared themselves white, 10.2% black, 0.8% indigenous and 0.4% yellow. In the sum, 56.7% of Brazilians are non-white, of these, 55.5% are afrodescendant.</small>}}</ref>
|-
|  {{flagu|Ecuador}}<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.inec.gov.ec/cpv_indigenas/cpv_in_g07.htm|title = Población Ecuatoriana Por Autodefinición Étnica en El VI Censo de Población del Año |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208150541/http://www.inec.gov.ec/cpv_indigenas/cpv_in_g07.htm |archive-date=February 8, 2008|website = INEC|language = es }}</ref>|| 13,927,650 || 5% || 680,000
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|  {{flagu|Uruguay}}  || 3,494,382 || 4% || 255,074
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|  {{flagu|Venezuela}}<ref name="ine.gov.ve">[http://www.ine.gov.ve/CENSO2011/documentos/pdf/ResultadosBasicosCenso2011.pdf Resultado Basico del XIV Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203105548/http://www.ine.gov.ve/CENSO2011/documentos/pdf/ResultadosBasicosCenso2011.pdf |date=December 3, 2017 }}, (p. 14).</ref>  ||  27,227,930 || 3% (African) || 1,087,427
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|  {{flagu|Peru}}  || 29,496,000 || 3% || 828,841
|-
|  {{flagu|Chile}}  || 17,094,270 || 1% || 170,943*
|-
|  {{flagu|Argentina}}  || 46,044,703 || <1% || 302,936 
|-
|  {{flagu|Bolivia}}  || 10,027,254 || <1% || 23,330	
|-
|  {{flagu|Paraguay}}  || 6,109,903 || <1% || 8,013
|-  style="background:#ccf;"
! [[North America]] || 450,545,368 || 10% || 42,907,538
|-
|  {{flagu|United States}}<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-states/ |title = CIA – The World Factbook – United States |publisher = Cia.gov |access-date = February 22, 2011 }}</ref> || 328,745,538 || 12% || 42,020,743 <small>According to the genomics company 23andMe, less than 4% of White Americans have 1% or more of African ancestry.</small><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-12-18 |title=Ancestry Across the United States |url=https://blog.23andme.com/articles/history-written-in-our-dna |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=23andMe Blog |language=en}}</ref> <small>Including this figure changes the total to '''49,241,508'''</small>
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|  {{flagu|Canada}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/demo52a.htm |title = Visible minority population, by province and territory (2001 Census) |publisher = 0.statcan.ca |date = September 11, 2009 |access-date = February 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080916102016/http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/demo52a.htm |archive-date = September 16, 2008 }}</ref>  || 39,566,248|| 4% || 1,547,870
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| {{flagu|Mexico}}  || 108,700,891    || 1% || 1,386,556<ref name="Encuesta Intercensal 2015">{{cite web | title = Principales resultados de la Encuesta Intercensal 2015 Estados Unidos Mexicanos | url = http://www.beta.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/proyectos/enchogares/especiales/intercensal/2015/doc/eic2015_resultados.pdf | publisher = [[INEGI]] | access-date = December 9, 2015 | pages = 77 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170422033628/http://www.beta.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/proyectos/enchogares/especiales/intercensal/2015/doc/eic2015_resultados.pdf | archive-date = April 22, 2017 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
|-  style="background:#ccf;"
! [[Central America]] || 41,283,652   || 4% || 1,453,761
|-
|  {{flagu|Belize}} || 301,270 || 31% || 93,394
|-
|  {{flagu|Panama}}  || 3,292,693 || 11% || 362,196
|-
| {{flagu|Nicaragua}} || 5,785,846 || 9% || 520,726
|-
|  {{flagu|Costa Rica}}  || 4,195,914 || 3% || 125,877
|-
|  {{flagu|Honduras}}  || 7,639,327 || 2% || 152,787
|-
|-  style="background:#ccf;"
! [[Europe]] || 738,856,462   ||  1% || < 8,000,000
|-
|  {{flagu|France}}<!--<ref>{{cite web |url = http://paceebene.org/pace/nvns/nonviolence-news-service-archive/in-officially-colorblind-f |title=|access-date = March 7, 2007 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>--><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/en/statistiques/6797730|title=Demographic report 2022|website=[[INSEE]]|author=Sylvain Papon}}</ref>  || 68,000,000 || 8% || Approximately 3–5 millions.<ref name="Kimmelman"/>
It is illegal for the French State to collect data on ethnicity and race.
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|  {{flagu|Portugal}}  || 10,467,366 || 7% || 645,000 (People with recent immigrant background are only 325,000 (2023)) <small>It is illegal for the Portuguese State to collect data on ethnicity and race. the percentage is likely much higher.</small><ref>{{Cite web |title=Portugal: Comunidade cabo-verdiana está muito bem integrada mas embaixador admite desafios |url=https://ilhas.li/aMZv |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Expresso das Ilhas |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Angola – Emigrantes totais 2020 {{!}} Countryeconomy.com |url=https://pt.countryeconomy.com/demografia/migracao/emigracao/angola |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=pt.countryeconomy.com |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=15 November 2023 |title=Visão {{!}} Guineenses em Portugal elegem liberdade como maior conquista da Guiné-Bissau |url=https://visao.pt/atualidade/mundo/2023-11-15-guineenses-em-portugal-elegem-liberdade-como-maior-conquista-da-guine-bissau/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Visão |language=pt-PT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Moçambique – Emigrantes totais 2020 {{!}} Countryeconomy.com |url=https://pt.countryeconomy.com/demografia/migracao/emigracao/mocambique |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=pt.countryeconomy.com |language=pt}}</ref>
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|  {{flagu|United Kingdom}} || 67,886,004 || 5% ([[British Mixed|inc. partial]]) || 3,000,000
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|  {{flagu|Netherlands}}{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}        ||     16,491,461    ||    3%   ||      507,000|-
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|  {{flagu|Belgium}}  || 10,666,866 ||3%||~300,000
|-
|  {{flagu|Spain}}  || 47,615,033 ||2,5% (including Maghrebis) ||1,206,701 (Of those ~300,000 are Black Sub-Saharan African)
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|  {{flagu|Sweden}}  || 10,379,295 (2020) ||  2.3% || 236,975 (2020)
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|  {{flagu|Italy}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://demo.istat.it/pop2015/index.html |title = ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica), Popolazione residente 2015 |publisher = Demo.istat.it |access-date = July 23, 2016 |archive-date = September 20, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160920225743/http://demo.istat.it/pop2015/index.html |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://demo.istat.it/str2015/index.html |title = ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica), Cittadini Stranieri, Bilancio Demografico 2015 Africa |publisher = Demo.istat.it |access-date = July 23, 2016 |archive-date = June 13, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160613091718/http://demo.istat.it/str2015/index.html |url-status = dead }}</ref>   ||    60,795,612   || 2% (including Maghrebis)||1,036,653 (Of those ~450,000 are Black Sub-Saharan African)
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|   {{flagu|Ireland}}<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/ireland/ |title = Ireland: People |access-date = December 20, 2008 |website = The World Factbook |publisher = Central Intelligence Agency }}</ref> ||    4,339,000   ||   1.38%   ||   64,639
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|  {{flagu|Germany}}     ||     82,000,000   ||   1.2% (including Maghrebis)  ||   1,000,000 (Of those ~500,000 are Black Sub-Saharan African)<ref name="focus 2021">{{Cite news|last=OnlineFOCUS Staff Writer |title=Zu Besuch in Neger und Mohrenkirch: Können Ortsnamen rassistisch sein? [Can place names be racist?] |url=https://www.focus.de/wissen/mensch/sprache/es-gibt-einige-die-entsetzt-waren-zu-besuch-in-neger-und-mohrenkirch-koennen-ortsnamen-rassistisch-sein_id_12824108.html |date=December 30, 2020 |access-date=April 27, 2021 |work=FOCUS Online|language=de}}</ref>
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|    {{flagu|Finland}}       ||    5,603,851 (2023)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://statfin.stat.fi/PxWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11rb.px/ |title=11rb -- Population and change in population size by sex, 1750-2023 |website=[[Statistics Finland]] |access-date=September 29, 2024}}</ref>    ||   1.26%            || [[African diaspora in Finland|70,592]] (2023){{r|finland-1}}
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|  {{flagu|Norway}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ssb.no/innvbef_en/tab-2010-04-29-04-en.html |title = Statistics Norway – Persons with immigrant background by immigration category, country background and sex. 1 January 2010 |language = no |publisher = Ssb.no |date = January 1, 2010 |access-date = February 22, 2011 }}</ref> || 4,858,199    ||  1% || 67,000
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|   {{flagu|Switzerland}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/07/blank/key/01/01.Document.67321.xls |title = Federal Office of Statistics |access-date = February 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130116072408/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/07/blank/key/01/01.Document.67321.xls |archive-date = January 16, 2013 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> || 7,790,000 ||1%||57,000
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|      {{flagu|Russia}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.africana.ru/Golden/info/black_russians_project_engl.htm |title = Мймй Зпмдео Й Мймй Дйлупо. Фемертпелф "Юетоще Тхуулйе": Уйопруйу |publisher = Africana.ru |access-date = February 22, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110115174736/http://africana.ru/Golden/info/black_russians_project_engl.htm |archive-date = January 15, 2011 |url-status = dead }}</ref>  ||      141,594,000       ||     <1%  ||      50,000
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|-  style="background:#ccf;"
! [[Asia]] ||  3,879,000,000   || <1% || ≈327,904
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|      {{flagu|Israel}}<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/05/ap/world/mainD8GPUNGG8.shtml |title = Music Earns Black Hebrews Some Acceptance |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060408073137/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/05/ap/world/mainD8GPUNGG8.shtml |archive-date = April 8, 2006 |access-date = May 20, 2013 }}</ref> ||   7,411,000  ||  3%  ||   200,000
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|        {{flagu|India}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.colaco.net/1/siddhi0.htm |title = colaco.net |publisher = colaco.net |access-date = February 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090226105055/http://www.colaco.net/1/siddhi0.htm |archive-date = February 26, 2009 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>  ||    1,132,446,000    ||   <1%    ||  40,000
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|  {{flagu|Malaysia}}<ref>{{cite news |url = http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/6/nation/11153134&sec=nation |title = Fear and prejudice |work = The Star |author = Lisa Goh |access-date = February 20, 2013 |date = May 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120506050537/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2012%2F5%2F6%2Fnation%2F11153134&sec=nation |archive-date = May 6, 2012 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> || 28,334,135 || <1% ||  31,904
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|        {{flagu|Hong Kong}}    ||    7,200,000     ||      <1%      ||   < 20,000<ref name=chinadaily>Fenn, Andrea, [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2010-07/06/content_10067689.htm The pride, passion and purpose of HK's Africans], ''[[China Daily]]'', July 6, 2010.</ref>
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|        {{flagu|China}}<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_yu/20050630.html |title = Global View: China: Foreign ghosts |publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |date = June 30, 2005 |access-date = February 22, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110120113017/http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_yu/20050630.html |archive-date = January 20, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  ||  1,321,851,888   ||   <1%    ||   16,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1629415/guangzhou-clarifies-size-african-community-amid-fears-over-ebola-virus |title=Guangzhou clarifies size of African community amid fears over Ebola virus |author=Zhuang Pinghui |date=November 1, 2014 |website=[[South China Morning Post]] |access-date=February 11, 2018 }}</ref>
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|       {{flagu|Japan}}<ref>[http://popafrica.homiez.net/15th/day15th1/15_1_1/ POP AFRICA]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ([[Nagoya University]]) from the statictics at 2005 by the Immigration Bureau of Japan</ref>      ||   127,756,815  ||  <1%  ||   10,000
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