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Countries of the Italian Diaspora

Can you name the countries (other than Italy) that have the largest number of people of Italian descent?
Source: Wikipedia
Percentages should be considered an EXTREMELY rough estimate
Quiz by OnlySammy
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People
%
Country
32 m
15.1
Brazil
25 m
54.6
Argentina
18 m
5.1
United States
5.5 m
8.0
France
5.0 m
17.6
Venezuela
2.5 m
35.9
Paraguay
2.0 m
3.8
Colombia
1.5 m
3.8
Canada
1.5 m
44.3
Uruguay
1.0 m
3.7
Australia
People
%
Country
1.0 m
1.2
Germany
0.85 m
0.6
Mexico
0.66 m
3.3
Chile
0.53 m
5.9
Switzerland
0.50 m
0.7
United Kingdom
0.50 m
1.5
Peru
0.45 m
3.8
Belgium
0.38 m
7.4
Costa Rica
0.30 m
2.6
Dominican Republic
0.26 m
0.5
Spain
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28 Comments
IvoRobotnik
+25
Level 50
Feb 1, 2025
I knew South America had a history of a lot of Italian immigration, but having both the highest Italian population outside of Italy and a country actually being majority Italian was a surprise.
OnlySammy
+6
Level 67
Feb 1, 2025
They basically replaced Spaniards as the largest European ethnicity at the beginning of the last century, in two or three countries.

And San Marino is obviously the one with the highest percentage of Italians outside Italy (around 90%, but that's just 30,000 people).

MindWax
+27
Level 86
Feb 14, 2025
San Marino, "outside" Italy? Better check a map ;)
Algarve
+4
Level 71
Feb 14, 2025
You can only be kidding, mr Wax
Philippelebel
+1
Level 72
Feb 18, 2025
I read in a biography of Che Guevara that he got his nickname from saying Che a lot, which is a quirk of people of Italian descent in Argentina. Don't know if it's true.
angrobper14
+3
Level 85
Feb 28, 2025
There is not a definitive explanation behind the "Che" that Argentinians use a lot.

Theories have pointed to several languages, ranging from Venetian and Valencian, to Mapuche, as the origin of the word.

But, yeah... they use it a lot. It's like English "hey", "yo", or "dude".

Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Feb 4, 2025
Time seemed pretty lenient to me. I finished with 2 minutes left even though I made some pretty bad guesses.
will1337
+5
Level 27
Jun 24, 2025
okay geek
TigerNiger
+4
Level 68
Feb 14, 2025
First one to take it after was featured, didn't do very well though

Good idea

Neodymium
+4
Level 63
Feb 14, 2025
How big were the populations in Italian Africa, as well as Albania?
OnlySammy
+11
Level 67
Feb 14, 2025
According to Wikipedia, about 13% of the Libyan population was Italian in 1939, compared to a few hundreds today. And as a Tunisian, I'd say we barely have a few thousand Italian immigrants, but at least 10% of the population (especially in the north) can trace their ancestry back to Italy in the last 200 years. Plus, we have a lot of Italian architecture, radio and television, and we eat way too much pasta.
tizzlizz
+1
Level 63
Feb 18, 2025
Is that because of the Carthage back and forth occupation from Rome? Or is that too far back in history?
OnlySammy
+3
Level 67
Feb 18, 2025
Way too early (although that would at least partly explain why lots of Tunisians, who are almost exclusively Arab, have blonde hair and blue or green eyes).

I'm rather talking of 19th-20th century. In fact, in the 1930s, there were 85,000 Italians in Tunisia, and about 55,000 Frenchmen and 17,000 Maltese, and the French colonizer launched whole campaigns to incite hundreds of thousands of French people to move in.

fibn1
+4
Level 40
Feb 27, 2025
Tunisians are not ethnically gulf Arabs, they're native Maghrebis who retained a unique culture and dialect throughout and after the caliphate. They probably retain a little Arab blood but ultimately it's like saying Aboriginal Australians are British
HubertThePhoenix
+1
Level 52
Feb 14, 2025
It's easy when you find the right area.
hi111223
+2
Level 67
Feb 14, 2025
So if I'm 70% Italian(I really am), does that mean I'm from Italian decent?
Alexquiz17
+12
Level 93
Feb 14, 2025
Or 30% indecent
Carry
+2
Level 63
Feb 17, 2025
The way the source describes it (even a distant ancestor is enough) I would say definitely.
HubertThePhoenix
+2
Level 52
Feb 14, 2025
You should translate this to Italian.
loganite
+4
Level 91
Feb 14, 2025
Benvenuti in Sudamerica!
Alexquiz17
+3
Level 93
Feb 14, 2025
Andare Verso Ovest!

(that means go west btw)

Bengus
+2
Level 60
Feb 20, 2025
Very good quiz.
Snoflakes
+1
Level 71
Feb 28, 2025
I learned a lot from this quiz!
Barn35
+3
Level 42
Jun 24, 2025
As an American of Italian descent, I'm surprised at how low our numbers are, but then I grew up in an area where we were highly concentrated.
RoboquizM86
+1
Level 47
Jun 24, 2025
Great quiz, was interesting to find out that south America had lots of Italians.
cocachiantos
+3
Level 72
Jun 24, 2025
Lots of football players from Argentina or Uruguay have Italian names (Cavani, Messi, Di Maria, Rulli, Simeone...)
lol3566
+1
Level 23
Jun 24, 2025
19/20! I guessed correctly that there were plenty of countries in Latin America.
undeadwarrior
+1
Level 65
Jun 24, 2025
As soon as I got one South American country, I knew that I should just guess all the countries in that region of the world due to the high level of Catholicism there.
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