Ukrainian Brazilians
 Fowk o Ukrainian strynd in Paraná | |
| Tot population | |
|---|---|
| (500,000 Ukrainian Brazilians 1% o Brazil's population[2] ) | |
| Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
| State o Paraná (an in minor degree, Mato Grosso do Sul an São Paulo) | |
| Leids | |
| Predominantly Ukrainian in the kintraside an Portuguese in urban auries. | |
| Releegion | |
| 85% belangin tae the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Kirk an a minority belangin tae the Eastren Orthodox Kirk an ither branchs of the Christianity | |
| Relatit ethnic groups | |
| other Brazilian an Ukrainians White Brazilians, Ukrainian Canadians, Roushie Brazilians, Pols Brazilians, Lithuanie Brazilians, Greek Brazilians |
Ukrainians o Brazil (Portuguese: Ucraino-brasileiro, Ucraniano-brasileiro; Ukrainian: Українці Бразилії, Ukrayintsi Brazylii) are Brazilian ceetizens born in Ukraine, or Brazilians o Ukrainian strynd who remain connectit, in some degree, tae Ukrainian cultur. In 1994, 400,000 fowk o Ukrainian strynd livit in Brazil, 80% (or approximately 350,000) o whom livit in a compact region approximately 1,930 square miles (5,000 km2) in size (a aurie slichtly lairger than the US state o Rhode Island), in the hilly sooth central pairt o State o Paraná in soothren Brazil.[3] They refer to this region as "Brazilian Ukraine."[4] Smawer nummers o Ukrainians hae settled in São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Pernambuco, an Paraiba.[3] The ceeties wi the lairgest nummer o Ukrainians are Prudentópolis (approximately 38,000 Ukrainians, or 75% o the ceety's population), Curitiba (33,000 Ukrainians), an União da Vitória (approximately 26,400 Ukrainians or 50% o the ceety's population).[5] In 2009 the Ukrainian population in Brazil wis estimatit tae be 500,000 fowk.[6]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ http://www.ukrainians.ca/content/view/1205/1/lang,en/
- ↑ People of Ukrainian descent in Brazil
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Oksana Boruszenko and Rev. Danyil Kozlinsky (1994). Ukrainians in Brazil (Chapter), in Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World, edited by Ann Lencyk Pawliczko, University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 443-454
- ↑ Ukrainian Diaspora in Brazil by Marina Bondarenko
- ↑ Ukrainian Observer, "Ukrainian Community of Brazil" June 23, 2004
- ↑ Press Release. Scholars Impressed with Ukrainian Life in Brazil. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. 2009
