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THEY DONT FORGET POLEND, UNLIEK JON CARRY, WHO FORGOT THEM IN THE GRAND COALITION. HE LOST FOR THAT REASON, CAUSE JORGE BUSH OLD HIM THAT.
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{{Infobox Ethnic group
|group=Poles
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|population =60 million (est.)<ref name="Swiat_Polonii" />
|region1={{POL}}
|pop1 = 38,860,000<br>
|ref1 = <ref></ref>
|region2 = {{USA}}
|pop2 = 9,385,233
|ref2 = <ref>Poles in US The {{PDFlink||468&nbsp;]<!-- application/pdf, 480146 bytes -->}} by the US Census Bureau estimates 9,385,233 people claiming Polish ancestry.</ref>
|region3 = {{BRA}}
|pop3 = 1,500,000
|ref3 = <ref></ref>
|region4 = {{DEU}}
|pop4 = 1,055,700
|ref4 = <ref>{{de icon}} Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund - Ergebnisse des Mikrozensus 2005 (German text about migrants in Germany) {{PDFlink|886&nbsp;]}}.</ref>
|region5 = {{FRA}}
|pop5 = 900,000
|ref = <ref> ] </ref>
|region6 = {{CAN}}
|pop6 = 850,000
|ref6 = <ref>]</ref>
|region8 = {{UK}}
|pop8 = 500,000 (est.)
|ref8 = <ref name="Swiat_Polonii" /><ref>{{en icon}} , source: government statistics.<br>'''^''' {{pl icon}} According to Tomasz Ziemba from Polish Express online 1,020,000 Polish visitors in the UK logged into Polish chatroom Gadu–Gadu in January: <br>'''^''' {{pl icon}} Tomasz Wybranowski, Tygodnik Przegląd, 22.08.2007, onet.pl<br>'''^''' {{en icon}} Office for National Statistics recorded the number of Poles who have travelled to the UK in 2006 at over 2,000,000. The number of those who stay exceeds 250,000.</ref>
|region7 = {{BLR}}
|pop7 = 400,000
|ref7 = <ref></ref>
|region8 = {{ARG}}
|pop8 = 500,000
|ref8 = <ref></ref>
|region9 = {{LTU}}
|pop9 = 250,000
|ref9 = <ref></ref>
|region11 = {{RUS}}
|pop11 = 173,000
|ref11 = <ref></ref>
|region12 = {{AUS}}
|pop12 = 150,900
|ref12 = <ref>{{PDFlink||56.3&nbsp;]<!-- application/pdf, 57733 bytes -->}}</ref>
|region13 = {{UKR}}
|pop13 = 144,130
|ref13 = <ref></ref>
|region14 = {{NOR}}
|pop14 = 120,000
|ref14 = <ref></ref>
|region15 = {{IRL}}
|pop15 = 63,090
|ref15 = <ref></ref>
|region16 = {{LVA}}
|pop16 = 57,000
|ref16 = <ref></ref>
|region17 = {{CZE}}
|pop17 = 52,000
|ref17 = <ref>{{PDFlink|http://wtd.vlada.cz/files/rvk/rnm/zprava_mensiny_2001_en.pdf|1.41&nbsp;]<!-- application/pdf, 1485306 bytes -->}}</ref>
|region18 = {{ITA}}
|pop18 = 50,790
|ref18 = <ref></ref>
|region19 = {{MEX}}
|pop19 = 50,000
|ref19 = <ref></ref>
|region20 = {{KAZ}}
|pop20 = 47,293
|ref20 = <ref>{{PDFlink||87.2&nbsp;]<!-- application/pdf, 89306 bytes -->}}</ref>
|region21 = {{NLD}}
|pop21 = 39,500
|ref21 = <ref>{{PDFlink||162&nbsp;]<!-- application/x-pdf, 166421 bytes -->}}</ref>
|region22 = {{AUT}}
|pop22 = 21,000
|ref22 = <ref>{{PDFlink|}}</ref>
|region23 = {{ISL}}
|pop23 = 7,000
|ref23 = <ref> </ref>
|region24 = {{TUR}}
|pop24 = 5,000
|ref24 = <ref> </ref>
|region25 = {{Flagicon|World}} Rest of World
|pop25 = 1,145,000 <small>(est.)</small><br>
|ref25 = <ref> </ref>
|languages=]
|rels=Predominantly ], with ], ], ], and ] Polish minorities
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The '''Polish people''', or '''Poles''', ({{lang-pl|Polacy}}) are a ] ] of ], living predominantly in ]. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent. Their religion is predominantly ]. The Poles can also be referred to as the inhabitants of the ] and Polish emigrants irrespective of their ethnicity. A wide-ranging ] exists throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Australia.

There is no commonly accepted definition of the Polish people. According to the ] of the ], the Polish Nation consists of all ] of Poland. However, like in most European countries, many people limit the group to native speakers of the ], people that share certain views or traditions, or people who share a common ethnic background originating from Poland. As to its origins, the name of the nation comes from a ] ] of ] primarily associated with Poland and the Polish language. Poles belong to the ] subgroup of these ethnic people. The ] of ], ], and ] were one of the most influential tribes of ] and managed to unite many other West Slavic tribes in the area under the rule of what became the ], thus giving birth to a new state. The Polish word for a Polish person is ''Polak'' (male) and ''Polka'' (female), however, when this common noun is used ] in the English language (usually spelled as '']'') it is always offensive.

==Statistics==
Poles or Polish are the sixth largest national group in Europe.<ref>NationMaster.com 2003-2008. Accessed 2008-01-25</ref> Estimates vary depending on source, though available data suggests a total number around 60 million people worldwide (with approx. 21 million living outside of Poland).<ref name="Swiat_Polonii"> (''Polish people abroad'' as per summary by Świat Polonii, internet portal of the Polish Association ''Wspólnota Polska'')</ref> There are almost 39 million Poles in Poland alone. There are also ] Polish minorities in the surrounding countries including ], the ], ], ], and ]. There are some smaller minorities in nearby countries such as ] and ]. There is also a Polish minority in ] which included autochthonous Poles as well as those forcibly deported during and after ]; the total number of Poles in what was the former ] is estimated at up to 3 million.<ref>Gil Loescher, , published by ] Press US, 1993, 1996. ISBN 0195102940. Accessed 12-12-2007. </ref>

The term "]" is usually used in Poland to refer to people of Polish origin who live outside Polish borders, officially estimated at around 10-12 to 20 million. There is a notable Polish ] in the ] (]), ], (]) and ] (see ]). ] has a special relationship with Poland and has a relatively large Polish-descendant population, though Poles lived in France since the late 1700s. In the early 20th century, over a million Polish people came to France, mostly hired contract labourers during WWI and Polish émigrés fleeing either Nazi occupation and later Soviet rule.

In the United States a significant number of Polish immigrants settled in ], ], ], ], and ]. The majority of Polish Canadians arrived to Canada since WWII, the number of Polish immigrants peaked after 1945 to 1970 but on the rise again since the fall of Communism in 1989. In recent years, since joining the ], many Polish people have emigrated to countries such as ]; where an estimated 200,000 Polish people have entered the labour market. It is estimated that three quarters of a million Polish people have immigrated to the ].

==Polish tribes==
The following is the list of ] - ] which constituted the lands of Poland in the ], at the beginning of the Polish state. Some of them have remained a separate ethnicity while others have been assimilated into the culture of Poland.
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==European Union==
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A survey carried out by the ] public opinion institute, between March 30 and April 2, 2007, found that 86% of Poles felt that ] membership had had a positive effect, with only 5% of the respondents speaking against it, down from 22 percent in 2004. The institute also found that 55% of those surveyed prefer the EU to remain a union of sovereign states, while 22% supported the idea of a "]".<ref>EU Business, 21 June 2007, Accessed 12-06-2007.</ref> Principal areas of Polish life that have been improved by EU membership, are agriculture (according to 75% of those surveyed), the environment (61%), productivity (57%) and unemployment (56%).<ref>EU Business, 02 May 2007, </ref>

Among the ten new EU members, of which eight are Central or Eastern European, Poles are the most mobile, with considerable numbers of Polish migrants found in almost all ‘old’ EU countries, filling numerous vacancies on the European labour market, especially in areas where indigenous workforce is insufficient. According to Franck Duvell of ], some countries, like Germany and Austria, missed on that opportunity by discriminating against mobile Europeans, granting them freedom of movement without freedom of employment, which resulted in the increase of numbers of illegal migrant workers there. “In fact, the EU accession process, and namely the Polish experience could possibly serve as a paradigm for easing some of Europe’s migration dilemma,” Duvell suggested.<ref>Franck Duvell, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford, {{PDFlink||22.3&nbsp;]<!-- application/pdf, 22872 bytes -->}}, accessed 12-06-2007.</ref>

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THEY DONT FORGET POLEND, UNLIEK JON CARRY, WHO FORGOT THEM IN THE GRAND COALITION. HE LOST FOR THAT REASON, CAUSE JORGE BUSH OLD HIM THAT.