Người Việt tại Phần Lan Suomen vietnamilaiset | |
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Total population | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Turku, and Tampere[3] | |
Languages | |
Vietnamese, Finnish, Swedish | |
Religion | |
Vietnamese folk religion, Mahayana Buddhism[4] and Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Vietnamese people in Norway and other overseas Vietnamese |
Vietnamese people in Finland (Vietnamese: Người Việt tại Phần Lan; Finnish: Suomen vietnamilaiset) form one of the country's largest groups of Southeast Asian people. According to Statistics Finland, in 2017 there are 10,817 people with a Vietnamese background, 9,872 people whose mother tongue is Vietnamese,[5] 8,012 people who have been born in Vietnam, and 5,603 people with Vietnamese citizenship[2] residing in Finland. The Vietnamese-Finnish community includes both ethnic Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese.[6]
No. | Municipality | Vietnamese | % |
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1. | Helsinki | 2,436 | 0.38 |
2. | Vantaa | 1,620 | 0.74 |
3. | Espoo | 1,128 | 0.41 |
4. | Turku | 741 | 0.39 |
5. | Tampere | 522 | 0.22 |
The majority of the Vietnamese in Finland are Mahayana Buddhist, with a 12% Christian minority.[citation needed]