Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic
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Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic, including citizens and non-citizens, are the third-largest ethnic minority in the country overall (after Slovaks and Ukrainians), numbering more than 83,000 people according to the 2011 census.
Total population | |
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61,012[1]–80,000[2] 0.6–0.8% of the Czech population | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Prague, Cheb, Varnsdorf | |
Languages | |
Vietnamese, Czech | |
Religion | |
Vietnamese folk religion, Mahayana Buddhism,[3] Roman Catholicism, Protestantism |
It is the third-largest Vietnamese diaspora in Europe, after Germany and France, and one of the most populous Vietnamese diasporas of the world.
According to the 2001 census, there were 17,462 ethnic Vietnamese in the Czech Republic.[4] The Vietnamese population has grown very rapidly since then, with the Czech Statistics Office estimating that there were 62,842 Vietnamese citizens residing in the Czech Republic in December 2020 (not including those with Czech citizenship).[1] Nguyen, the most common Vietnamese surname, is now the 9th most common surname in the Czech Republic.[5]