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{{About|people from Britain|people from [[Brittany]]|Bretons}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = British people
| flag = Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
| flag_upright = 1.02
| flag_caption = [[Flag of the United Kingdom]]
| population = {{plainlist|
* British '''72 million'''
* [[British diaspora]] '''140 million'''<ref name="Richards 2004 255">{{harvnb|Richards|2004|p=255}}.</ref>
}}
[[File:Map of the British Diaspora in the World.svg|center|frameless|260x260px]]
| genealogy =
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| region1 = {{UK}}
| pop1 = {{val|57678000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|British citizens of any race or [[ethnicity]].}}
| ref1 = <ref>[http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/august-2014/rft-table-2---population-by-cob.xls Population By Country of Birth and Nationality tables January 2013 to December 2013]. Retrieved 04_11_2014</ref>
| region11 = {{flagicon|UK}} [[British Overseas Territories]]
| pop11 = {{val|247899|fmt=commas}}
| ref11 = <ref name="ReferenceA">See the article entitled [[British overseas territories]].</ref>
| region2 = {{USA}}
| pop2 = {{Unbulleted list |class=nowrap
| {{val|34275567|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}
| {{val|678000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
}}
| ref2 = <ref name=BritUS>{{cite web|title=Selected social characteristics in the United States: 2013–2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP02/0100000US|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=26 August 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213004920/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP02/0100000US|archive-date=13 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Brits Abroad: Country-by-country">{{citation | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6161705.stm | title = Brits Abroad: Country-by-country | work = [[BBC News]]| date = 11 December 2006 | access-date = 24 May 2009 }}</ref>
| region3 = {{AUS}}
| pop3 = {{Unbulleted list |class=nowrap
| {{val|10764870|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}<ref name=BritAus>Numerical estimate based on the total percentage of population identifying their principal ancestry as Scottish, English or Welsh. {{cite web|title= CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AUSTRALIA, 2016|url= http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/2071.0~2016~Main%20Features~Cultural%20Diversity%20Article~20|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170812211925/http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/2071.0~2016~Main%20Features~Cultural%20Diversity%20Article~20|url-status= dead|archive-date= 12 August 2017|publisher=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] |access-date=2 December 2018}}</ref>
| {{val|1300000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
}}
| ref3 =
| region4 = {{CAN}}
| pop4 = {{Unbulleted list |class=nowrap
| {{val|10753945|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}
| {{val|609000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
}}
| ref4 = <ref name=BritCan>Canadians of [[British Isles]] origin with the exception of those identifying their ancestry as Irish only. {{cite web|title=Census Profile, 2016 Census|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Geo2=&Code2=&Data=Count&SearchText=Canada&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&TABID=1|publisher=[[Statistics Canada]]|access-date=2 December 2018}}</ref>
| region5 = {{NZL}}
| pop5 = {{Unbulleted list |class=nowrap
| {{val|2425278|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}
| {{val|217000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
}}
| ref5 = <ref name=BritNZ>{{citation | url = http://www.stats.govt.nz/census/2006-census-data/quickstats-about-culture-identity/quickstats-about-culture-and-identity.htm?page=para017Master | title = QuickStats About Culture and Identity | date = 4 February 2009 | access-date = 18 May 2009 | publisher = stats.govt.nz | author = Statistics New Zealand|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080219232357/http://www.stats.govt.nz/census/2006-census-data/quickstats-about-culture-identity/quickstats-about-culture-and-identity.htm?page=para017Master |archive-date = 19 February 2008| author-link = Statistics New Zealand }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=May 2020}}
| region6 = {{RSA}}
| pop6 = {{Unbulleted list |class=nowrap
| {{val|1603575|fmt=commas}}
| {{val|750000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
}}
| ref6 = <ref name=Census2011>{{cite book |title=Census 2011: Census in brief |url=http://www.statssa.gov.za/census/census_2011/census_products/Census_2011_Census_in_brief.pdf |publisher=Statistics South Africa |location=Pretoria |year=2012 |isbn=9780621413885 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513171240/http://www.statssa.gov.za/census/census_2011/census_products/Census_2011_Census_in_brief.pdf |archive-date=13 May 2015 |page=26}} The number of people who described themselves as white in terms of population group and specified their first language as English in South Africa's 2011 Census was 1,603,575. The total white population with a first language specified was 4,461,409 and the total population was 51,770,560.</ref>
| region7 = {{BRA}}
| pop7 = {{val|840000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}
| ref7 = <ref>FREYRE, G. ''Ingleses no Brasil''</ref>
<ref name="Imigrantes Ingleses no Brasil">{{cite web|author=Gilberto Freyre |url=https://www.geni.com/projects/Imigrantes-do-Reino-Unido-ao-Brasil/33294# |title=Ingleses no Brasil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A chegada dos britânicos ao Paraná|trans-title=The arrival of the British in Paraná |url=https://www.revistaideias.com.br/2018/11/06/a-chegada-dos-britanicos-ao-parana/ |access-date=2021-02-25 |archive-date=2020-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028231500/https://www.revistaideias.com.br/2018/11/06/a-chegada-dos-britanicos-ao-parana/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| region8 = {{CHI}}
| pop8 = {{val|700000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}
| ref8 =
| region9 = {{FRA}}
| pop9 = {{val|400000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
| ref9 = <ref name="Présentation du Royaume-Uni">{{cite web|author=Erwin Dopf |url=http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/royaume-uni/presentation-du-royaume-uni |title=Présentation du Royaume-Uni |publisher=diplomatie.gouv.fr |access-date=8 April 2014}}</ref>
| region10 = {{IRL}}
| pop10 = {{val|291000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
| ref10 =
| region12 = {{ARG}}
| pop12 = {{val|250000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}
| ref12 = <ref name="nytimes">{{citation | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E5D61039F930A15755C0A963948260 | title = Fare of the country: A bit of Britain in Argentina | first = Lydia | last = Chavez | date = 23 June 1985 | access-date = 21 May 2009 | work = The New York Times}}</ref>
| region13 = {{UAE}}
| pop13 = {{val|240000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref13 = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/news-comment/the-other-special-relationship-the-uae-and-the-uk |title=The other special relationship: the UAE and the UK |work=The National |location=Abu Dhabi |date=21 November 2010 |access-date=26 February 2014 |archive-date=28 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628214043/http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/news-comment/the-other-special-relationship-the-uae-and-the-uk |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| region14 = {{ESP}}
| pop14 = {{val|236669|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
| ref14 = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=/t20/e245/p04/provi/l0/&file=00000010.px|title=TablaPx|website=www.ine.es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10781350/End-to-Mediterranean-dream-for-90000-Britons-who-left-Spain-last-year.html|title=End to Mediterranean dream for 90,000 Britons who left Spain last year|date=22 April 2014|work=Telegraph.co.uk|last1=Govan|first1=Fiona}}</ref>
| region15 = {{MEX}}
| pop15 = 200,000
| ref15 =
| region16 = {{GER}}
| pop16 = {{val|115000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref16 = <ref name="autogenerated7">{{citation | url = http://local.live.com/?v=2&cid=8383590E124DC654!157&encType=1 | title = The most popular British emigration destinations | publisher = local.live.com | date = 13 April 2007 | access-date = 24 May 2009}}</ref>
| region17 = {{PAK}}
| pop17 = {{val|79447|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
| ref17 = <ref name="Gishkori">{{cite news|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/929229/over-280000-immigrants-living-in-pakistan-says-nisar/|title=Karachi has witnessed 43% decrease in target killing: Nisar|work=[[The Express Tribune]]|date=30 July 2015|access-date=3 August 2017|first=Zahid|last=Gishkori|quote=As many as 116,308 Afghan nationals are living as immigrants in the country, higher than any other country," Nisar told the House. Besides Afghans, 52,486 Americans, 79,447 British citizens and 17,320 Canadians are residing in the country, the interior minister added.}}</ref>
| region18 = {{CYP}}
| pop18 = {{val|59000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref18 = <ref name="autogenerated7"/>
| region19 = {{THA}}
| pop19 = {{val|51000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref19 = <ref name="autogenerated3">{{citation | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/asia_pac.stm | title = Brits Abroad: Asia-Pacific | work = [[BBC News]]| date = 11 December 2006 | access-date = 24 May 2009 }}</ref>
| region20 = {{SIN}}
| pop20 = {{val|45000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref20 = <ref name="autogenerated3"/>
| region21 = {{SUI}}
| pop21 = {{val|45000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref21 = <ref name="autogenerated6">{{citation | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/europe.stm | title = Brits Abroad: Europe | work = [[BBC News]]| date = 11 December 2006 | access-date = 24 May 2009 }}</ref>
| region22 = {{NED}}
| pop22 = {{val|44000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref22 = <ref name="autogenerated6" />
| region23 = {{ISR}}
| pop23 = {{val|44000|fmt=commas}}
| ref23 = <ref name="autogenerated1">{{citation | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/mid_east.stm | title = Brits Abroad: Middle East | work = [[BBC News]]| date = 11 December 2006 | access-date = 24 May 2009 }}</ref>
| region24 = {{POR}}
| pop24 = {{val|41000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref24 = <ref name="autogenerated6" />
| region25 = {{SWE}}
| pop25 = {{val|39989|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref25 =
| region26 = {{ITA}}
| pop26 = {{Unbulleted list |class=nowrap
| {{val|26000|fmt=commas}}<ref name="Brits Abroad: Country-by-country" />
| {{val|39177|fmt=commas}}<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.tuttitalia.it/statistiche/cittadini-stranieri/regno-unito/ | title=Britannici in Italia - statistiche e distribuzione per regione}}</ref>
}}
| region27 = {{NOR}}
| pop27 = {{val|34279|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}
| ref27 = <ref>{{cite web|title=Persons with immigrant background by immigration category, country background and sex |date=1 January 2009 |publisher=ssb.no |work=Statistics Norway |url=http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/10/innvbef_en/arkiv/tab-2009-04-30-05-en.html |access-date=16 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115112242/http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/10/innvbef_en/arkiv/tab-2009-04-30-05-en.html |archive-date=15 November 2011 }}</ref>
| region28 = {{TUR}}
| pop28 = {{val|34000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref28 = <ref name="autogenerated6" />
| region29 = {{IND}}
| pop29 = {{val|32000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref29 = <ref name="autogenerated2">{{citation | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/asia.stm | title = Brits Abroad: Asia | work = [[BBC News]]| date = 11 December 2006 | access-date = 24 May 2009 }}</ref>
| region30 = {{KEN}}
| pop30 = {{val|29000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref30 = <ref>{{citation | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/africa.stm | title = Brits Abroad: Africa | work = [[BBC News]]| date = 11 December 2006 | access-date = 24 May 2009 }}</ref>
| region31 = {{BEL}}
| pop31 = {{val|28000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref31 = <ref name="autogenerated6"/>
| region32 = {{BRB}}
| pop32 = {{val|27000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref32 = <ref name="Cari">{{citation | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/caribbean.stm | title = Brits Abroad: Caribbean | work = [[BBC News]]| date = 11 December 2006 | access-date = 24 May 2009 }}</ref>
| region33 = {{SAU}}
| pop33 = {{val|26000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref33 =
| region34 = {{JAM}}
| pop34 = {{val|25000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref34 = <ref name="Cari" />
| region35 = {{TTO}}
| pop35 = {{val|25000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref35 = <ref name="2013 estimates">{{cite web|url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/august-2014/rft-table-2---population-by-cob.xls|title=Estimated overseas-born population resident in the United Kingdom by sex, by country of birth (Table 1.4)|publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]]|date=28 August 2014|access-date=27 April 2015}} Figure given is the central estimate. See the source for 95 per cent [[confidence interval]]s.</ref>
| region36 = {{JPN}}
| pop36 = {{val|23000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref36 = <ref name="Brits Abroad: Country-by-country" />
| region37 = {{HKG}}
| pop37 = {{Unbulleted list |class=nowrap
| {{val|19405|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_anc}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}<ref name=hkcensus>[http://itable.censtatd.gov.hk/UI/Report/Report.aspx?lang=en-US Interactive Data Dissemination Service], [[Hong Kong Census]], 2011</ref>
| {{val|3400000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_res}}<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|author=The Committee Office, House of Commons |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmfaff/117/11712.htm#note212 |title=House of Commons – Foreign Affairs – Fifth Report |publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom |access-date=26 February 2014}}</ref>
| {{val|33733|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_cit}}
}}
| ref37 = <ref name=hkcensus/>
| region38 = {{GRE}}
| pop38 = {{val|18000|fmt=commas}}{{efn-ua|name=i_born}}
| ref38 =
| region39 = {{FIN}}
| pop39 = {{val|16732|fmt=commas}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ethnic-groups-and-nationalities-in-finland.html|title=Ethnic Groups And Nationalities In Finland|date=5 June 2018|publisher=Worldatlas.com}}</ref>
| languages = {{plainlist}}
* '''[[English language|English]]'''
{{flatlist}}
* [[Cornish language|Cornish]]
* [[Guernésiais]]
* [[Irish language|Irish]]a
* [[Jèrriais]]
* [[Llanito]]
* [[Manx language|Manx]]
* [[Welsh language|Welsh]]
* {{nowrap|[[Scots language|Scots]] (including [[Ulster Scots dialects|Ulster-Scots]])}}
* {{nowrap|[[Scottish Gaelic]]}}
* Immigrant languages
{{endflatlist}}
{{endplainlist}}
| religions = {{plainlist|
* mainly [[Christianity]] ([[Anglicanism]], [[Presbyterianism]], [[Catholic Church in the United Kingdom|Catholicism]], [[Methodism]])
* see also [[Religion in the United Kingdom]]
}}
| footnotes = {{notelist-ua|refs=
{{efn-ua|name=i_anc|People who identify of full or partial British ancestry born into that country.}}
{{efn-ua|name=i_born|UK-born people who identify of British ancestry only.}}
{{efn-ua|name=i_res|British citizens by way of residency in the [[British overseas territories]]; however, not all have ancestry from the United Kingdom.}}
{{efn-ua|name=i_cit|British citizens or nationals.}}
}}
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'''Britons''', '''British people''', or '''the British''' are people from [[Britain]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|year=2008|title=Briton, ''n''. and ''adj''.|url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/23468|access-date=2021-02-25|website=Oxford English Dictionary Online|edition=3rd}}</ref> – either from the [[United Kingdom]] or the island of [[Great Britain]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|year=2008|title=British, ''adj''. and ''n''.|url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/23462|access-date=2021-02-25|website=Oxford English Dictionary Online|edition=3rd}}</ref> In history, the people of the [[British Empire]], and later the [[British Commonwealth]], were also named British or Britons.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

The first people to be named Britons were the people of ancient Britain, the [[ancient Britons]].<ref name=":0" /> The [[ancient Romans]] named the people of Britain in {{Lang-la|Britanni|lit=Britons}}.<ref name=":0" /> People from [[Roman Britain]] called themselves in {{Lang-la|Brittones|links=no}}.<ref name=":0" /> [[Bede]] used the [[wikt:spelling|spelling]] in {{Lang-la|Brettones|links=no}}, the spelling of which was possibly learned from the [[Old English]] word of the same meaning.<ref name=":0" />

Originally, the word Briton in the [[English language]] meant a person from one of the [[Brythonic languages]]-speaking peoples in Great Britain and northern [[France]]: mostly the people of [[Strathclyde]], [[Wales]], [[Cornwall]], and [[Brittany]].<ref name=":0" /> This meaning of the word was used in [[Middle English]] from the 13th [[wikt:century|century]] and after.<ref name=":0" /> In the 16th and 17th centuries, Briton could also be a name for [[Welsh people]].<ref name=":0" />

The use of Britons to mean all the people of Britain was not common in the English language before the early 18th century.<ref name=":0" /> It became more [[wikt:usual|usual]] after the [[Acts of Union 1707]] joined together the [[Kingdom of England]] and the [[Kingdom of Scotland]] into the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite ODNB|last=Murdoch|first=Alexander|year=2007|title=England, Scotland, and the Acts of Union (1707)|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96282|access-date=2021-06-17|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/96282|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8}}</ref> The word Briton was frequently used in the 18th and 19th centuries with the suggestion of "qualities of [[wikt:bravery|bravery]] and [[wikt:fortitude|fortitude]]".<ref name=":0" /> The [[wikt:rare|rare]] word "Britoness" was sometimes used in the past for women from Britain.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|year=2008|title=Britoness, ''n''.|url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/23470|access-date=2021-02-28|website=Oxford English Dictionary Online|edition=3rd}}</ref> Writers like [[Edmund Spenser]], [[Thomas Babington Macaulay]], and [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] used it for strong women like the ancient British queen [[Boudica]] (who fought the Romans) and the English queen, [[Elizabeth I]] (whose [[Royal Navy]] defeated the [[Spanish Armada]]).<ref name=":02" />

==Citizenship==
To become a British [[Citizenship|citizen]], there are many different thing that must be considered. Unlike some countries, a person is not a citizen of Britan just because they were born there.<ref name="cit">{{cite web |title=Check if you can become a British citizen |url=https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship |website=GOV.UK |accessdate=28 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> When they were born and the citizenship status of thieir parents can affect if the can be a citizen. Other things that may affect being a citizen of England include being married to a British citizen, having indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and then living in the UK for 12 months or if the person had "settled status".<ref name="cit" />

Other things that may let a person apply for citizenship include having a British parent, being a citizen of another British country, not being a citizen of any country or having been a citizen in the past but giving up that citizenship.<ref name="cit" /> A person may also be able to apply if their parents came to the UK before 1973 and that person was also born in the UK or moved to it before they were 18. They must also have not moved away from the UK for more than two years.<ref name="cit" />

== References ==
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