Spanish Australians
Spanish Australians refers to Australian citizens and residents of Spanish descent, or people who were born in Spain and immigrated to Australia. There are approximately 123,000 Australians who are of full or partial Spanish descent, most of whom reside within the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with lesser but rapidly growing numbers in Brisbane (which has over 15,000) and Perth. Of these, according to the 2011 Australian census, 13,057 were born in Spain.
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92,952 (by claimed ancestry, 2011)
15,976 (ancestry by birthplace of parents, 2011) | |
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Australian English, Spanish. Minority speaks Catalan, Galician, and Basque. | |
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Roman Catholicism (majority) Protestantism and others (minority) | |
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Spaniards, Castilians, Asturians, Cantabrians, Aragonese, Galicians, Catalans, Basques, other Hispanic and Latin American Australians |
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