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According to recent estimates, the population of ethnic Koreans worldwide is:
Main article: Culture of Korea Koreans in both South Korea and North Korea share many cultural aspects, but the political distinctions between the two countries result in regional differences in culture between the North and South. There are around 71 million speakers of the Korean language worldwide. More than 2 million ethnic Koreans live in the U.S. The majority of Koreans in the United States|U.S reside in the City|cities. They live and work in Koreatown|communities in cities such as: New York City, New York; Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, Illinois; and Houston, Texas|Houston, Texas.
Approximately 450,000 ethnic Koreans reside in the former Soviet Union|USSR, primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia. There are also large Korean communities in southern Russia (around Volgograd), the Caucasus, and southern Ukraine. These communities can be traced back to the Koreans who were living in the Russian Far East. In 1937, Stalin deported approximately 200,000 ethnic Koreans to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, on the official premise that the Koreans might act as spies for Japan. There is also a separate ethnic Korean community in the Russian island of Sakhalin, where Koreans brought in by Japan as labourers were stranded after the island came into Soviet hands after World War II. As of January 1, 1998, 1,123,200 ethnic Koreans lived in Uzbekistan, amounting to 4.7% of the total country's population. Probably as a consequence of these ethnic ties, South Korea was the second import partner of Uzbekistan, after Russia, and one of its largest foreign investors. The car manufacturer Daewoo set up a joint venture (August 1992) and a factory in Asaka city, Andizhan province, in Uzbekistan. See also: Population transfer in the Soviet Union Koreans form one of the Chinese nationalities|56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. It is considered one of the "major minorities". They mostly occupy the north of China, especially in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, where they numbered 854,000 in 1997. CEG Koreans in Japan are also referred to as Zainichi. There are 528,904 Koreans in Japan, amounting to 40.4% of the non-Japanese Demographics of Japan|population of the country. 75% of the Japanese Koreans are Japanese-born, but most are legal aliens nevertheless. See also: Ethnic issues in Japan Koreatowns can be found in New York (Koreatown, Manhattan) and Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles with signs in Korean. There is also a Koreatown in London.
Category:Korea Category:South Korean people|* Category:North Korean people|* Category:Ethnic groups of Asia ja:朝鮮民族 zh:朝鲜族 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Koreans".
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