Spanish Australian

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Spanish Australian
Hispano Australiano
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Total population

50,000 (exc. those with Spanish ancestry from Latin America and having mixed race)
75,237 (inc. those with Spanish ancestry from Latin America and having mixed race)[1]

Regions with significant populations
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth
Languages
English, Spanish. Minority speaks Catalan, Galician, and Basque.
Religions
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Spanish, Galicians, Catalans Basques, Mediterranean race, Latin peoples, Arabs

Spanish Australians (Spanish: Hispanos Australianos) are Australians with ancestry from European country of Spain. There are approximately 75,237 Australians of Spanish descent.

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The term “Spanish Australian” refers to Australians with ancestry from Spain and they number at 50,000. This term usually do not apply to Australians with Spanish blood from one of the Hispanic countries of Latin America, but if they were to include them although they did not identify themselves as “Spanish” or “Spaniard”, these would include criollos, and people of mixed race with Spanish ethnicity is one of their ancestries, like mestizos, mulattos, Eurasians, and/or other racial mixtures, their number will increase to 75,237.

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