Faroe Islanders

Faroese people
*føroyingar*
	Faroese folk dancers in national costumes
Total population
	c. 70,000
Regions with significant populations
Faroe Islands	≈50,000
Denmark	21,687
Norway	1,981[dubious – discuss]
Languages
	Faroese; Danish (Gøtudanskt)
Religion
	Lutheranism (Church of the Faroe Islands); Historically also the Norse religion and Roman Catholicism (1000–1538)
Related ethnic groups
	Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Celts

Faroese people or Faroe Islanders (Faroese: føroyingar; Danish: færinger) are an ethnic group native to the Faroe Islands.^[4] The Faroese are of mixed Norse and Gaelic origins.^[5] About 21,000 Faroese live in neighbouring countries, particularly in Denmark, Iceland and Norway. Most Faroese are citizens of the Kingdom of Denmark, in which the Faroe Islands are a constituent nation. The Faroese language is one of the North Germanic languages and is closely related to Icelandic and to western Norwegian varieties.

^ According to a 2009 estimate, the population of the Faroe Islands was 49,000, ~92% of that population was Faroese born, which is approximately 45,000. (See demographics of the Faroe Islands)
^ Politiken Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 2006 (newspaper written in Danish)
^ "Table 5 Persons with immigrant background by immigration category, country background and sex. 1 January 2009". www.ssb.no. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
^ Minahan, James (2000). One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 769. ISBN 0313309841. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^ Als, T. D.; Jorgensen, T. H.; Børglum, A. D.; Petersen, P. A.; Mors, O.; Wang, A. G. (2006). "Highly discrepant proportions of female and male Scandinavian and British Isles ancestry within the isolated population of the Faroe Islands". European Journal of Human Genetics. 14 (4): 497–504. doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201578. PMID 16434998.